linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Lost Serial Port?

Friday, January 23, 2015

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Lost Serial Port?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:32:30AM -0500, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:54 PM, ve7tk@yahoo.ca [LINUX_Newbies]
>> <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Is it you, or is it the Yahoo mail interface sending this in HTML
>> email? Ugh, it's annoying to have to convert everything back to Plain
>> Text... oh well... I think Newbies is more lax on this than Linux@
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> Doesn't Newbies top post by default? I think they only have one, very
> overworked mod.

AFAIK they don't have moderation though ;-) And the rules of
netiquette are a bit more relaxed here. But I've earned my Linux
Curmudgeon status at the ripe old age of 40 anyway ;-) being from the
school of USENET.

> But what are you using to read it? Even in mutt, I find that these days,
> it can handle HTML, which is sort of a sad statement about what's happened
> to the Internet, at least for us old folks who remember that if anyone
> dared use HTML, they'd be castigated.

I do it all in gmail, I just feel pangs of annoyance whenever I reply
and have to convert html to plain text. Plain text is better/easier
for inline-quoting, IMO. Good example, your email was in Plain Text
and needed no special fixins :P

Jeff

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