[38593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jun 7 20:54:38 2001
Message-Id: <200106080053.f580rpS06111@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: Todd Suiter <todd@space4rent.com>,
Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:37:25 PDT."
<20010607173725.O9791@haybaler.sackheads.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:53:51 -0400
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:37:25 PDT, John Payne said:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:03:12PM -0700, Todd Suiter wrote:
> > I really have to wonder how many of you are/have been postmasters for fortune
> > 500 companies. t
> I fail to see the point.
Point? Probably that if you're a postmaster for a large site, you see all SORTS
of stupidity that makes the top/bottom quoting seem trivial in comparison.
My favorite roadkill on the Infobahn:
User complains he can't post to a Listserv, because his postings are rejected
as "too long", even though he was only posting short messages. Oddly enough,
his mail was about 6,000 lines long - 20 lines of complaint, followed by a
signature block that started with 'begin 644 big-n-deep.gif' and ended some
6,000 lines of uuencoded data later with an 'end'. Decorum prevents my saying
what the uuencoded data was, but you can guess from the filename. ;)
So I drop him a note of the form "It's probably the fact that you have a 6K
line .signature".. I get a reply back "I guess this *also* means I should
call my ISP and cancel the tech support call about Eudora taking forever to
send mail?"
Count your blessings, guys and girls.. ;)
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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