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echo: net_dev
to: mark lewis
from: Pablo Saratxaga
date: 1996-10-28 23:16:18
subject: Re: RFC type packet format thoughts

From: srtxg{at}linux.chanae.stben.be (Pablo Saratxaga)

Kaixo!
in article 
 mark lewis (mark.lewis{at}f12.n3634.z1.fidonet.org) said:

 >   ___----------
 >   this was under a line of all dashes
 > 
 > i have seen that crap TOOOOOO many times. it is directly a sign of a programmer
 > who doesn't want to take the time or space to code the tearline stuff
correctly.

It's also a sign of non existing standards nor documentation that properly
describes how to handle the tearline stuff.

-- 

A bientôt,
Pablo Saratxaga

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