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[OT] Quoting, CAPS and AOL... (was: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux) (fwd))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 18 04:39:46 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:40:53 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811171822060.11233-100000@blood.cmj.com>; from Aaron Clow on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 06:22:25PM -0500
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Aaron Clow writes:
>
[...]
>
> How many of
> us who had been on the net for a couple of years got annoyed that BINGO,
> people could just subscribe to AOL or Prodigy and suddenly they were all
> over the net SAYING EVERYTHING IN CAPS and reprinting the entire content
> of e-mail messages when replying even when it was easy to follow the
> thread without doing so?
[...]
<rant>
Nowadays, were a huge step further - today, people don't need AOL anymore to
write in all caps and to quote entire messages without thinking... And
thanks to programs like Netscape and M$ Outlook and the likes, we also get
the added malus of HTML mails, ms-tnef attachments, v-cards and what-not.
Now, isn't it nice to see technology progress? :-{
Talk about de-commoditising protocols... :-(
</rant>
SCNR,
Thomas
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