Re: Geiger and long, unreadable lines

In <199701311303.GAA01678@infowest.com>, on 01/31/97 at 12:58 PM,
   "Attila T. Hun" <attila@primenet.com> said:


>    If Geiger's software works as well as his ongoing comprehension of
>    the problem 90 to 100 character long mail message lines cause, we
>    are all in trouble.

>    mail which might be forwarded, commented a few times, etc. really
>    works best with 72-74 characters maximum per line.

Well considering that we are approaching the 21st Century I think it is a
little silly that one should have to worry about the line length in an
e-mail message. Even the dos based programs from the 80's could handle
wordwraping of displayed text.

<sigh> for the benifit of those misfortunate enough to be still working on
dumb terminals I have disabled my PGP script until I have time to add a
word wrap routine to it.

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Mr William H. Geiger III "Author of E-Secure" writes:
> <sigh> for the benifit of those misfortunate enough to be still working on
> dumb terminals I have disabled my PGP script until I have time to add a
> word wrap routine to it.

<sigh> it is you who were demonstrating your ineptitude by spewing
120+ line length postings.  Why is it so difficult for you to keep
under 80 chars?  Would you like some technical assistance?  Notice how
near every one else apart from yourself is managing to keep under 80
chars?  Does every one apart from yourself live in the `dark ages'?  I
suppose you write letters on A4 landscape mode too?

When I see a posting with such long lines I hit the `n' key.

(cpunks-flames material? :-)

Adam
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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Mr William H. Geiger III "Author of E-Secure" writes:
> > <sigh> for the benifit of those misfortunate enough to be still working on
> > dumb terminals I have disabled my PGP script until I have time to add a
> > word wrap routine to it.
>
> <sigh> it is you who were demonstrating your ineptitude by spewing
> 120+ line length postings.  Why is it so difficult for you to keep
> under 80 chars?  Would you like some technical assistance?  Notice how
> near every one else apart from yourself is managing to keep under 80
> chars?

Notice how near every one else apart from yourself bends over for the NSA,
and is willing to use a 40-bit key "escrowed" with the feds?  Why is it so
difficult for you to keep under 40 bits? Would you like some technical
assistance? Why are you setting yourself apart from the Internet community
that so happily embraces GAK? Why do you desire "privacy" for your traffic
when everyone else does not? What have you got to hide? Are you looking to
transmit child pornography, bomb-making instructions, and/or cannabis
legalization propaganda? We better have a look at your hard disk soon.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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