On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> they look pretty crappy to me... they're not wrapped, either... they
 ml> are too long and truncated...

 NB> If they would be displayed exactly how they were created and
 NB> released, there  would not be a problem. The mess up is when the
 NB> software decides to wrap the  text where it was never meant to be
 NB> wrapped.

no, the posted crap is from the TIC descriptions... i've no clue if they
were DESC lines or fouled up LDESC lines... those files are from 2013...

 NB> By the way, there was another release in UTILNET yesterday with
 NB> your spacing  and ASCII border stuff you like so much. That's two
 NB> days in a row now! I don't  think you're going to get anywhere with
 NB> this idea of yours.

it is not *my* idea... geez, nick... :(

 ml> there's still roughly 1000 to fix in the one group... the really
 ml> cruddy part is that some (maybe most) of them do have file_id.diz but
 ml> they are broken dizes... they have *nix EOL (end of line) characters
 ml> instead of the traditional format using CRLF (carriage return and line
 ml> feed)... as such, they break database pretty badly and still require
 ml> manual editing to fix them :(

 NB> I don't feel sorry for you one bit. :)

whatever...

 ml> discussed... i'm just an average joe sysop here... one who is,
 ml> admittedly, quite peeved because of how his files areas look because
 ml> of others' frak-ups...

 NB> I'm truely sorry you feel that way. Then again, no I'm not.

whatever...

 NB>> No. It was NOT a reply to Robert's post.

 ml> you had to hit the [R]eply button to quote it, nick... it was a
 ml> reply...

 NB> Actually, no. I hit ALT-Q to quote the text, and then put ALL in
 NB> the To:  Field - all normal workings of GoldEd+. Don't ASSume what
 NB> I did or did not do. 

exactly... don't assume you know how all other software operates, what kind
of crap has been distributed or how others want to display their file
descriptions...

 NB>> The message was (on purpose, mind you) directed to ALL.

 ml> it doesn't matter who it was addressed to... followups, which some of
 ml> your software can do, are also replies even though they are addressed
 ml> by default to the same person the one being quoted was responding
 ml> to...

 NB> Followups are only in newsreaders. 

bullshit... you obviously don't know your FTN software... Remote Access
(BBS), FrontDoor (mailer) and TimED (editor) have had followups since the
JAM message base format was introduced... most all JAM related software
since then has the same capabilities...

 NB> And seriously, now you're getting annoying. 

welcome to my world :/

 ml> no he doesn't... his FDN is infopacks! he asked that people respect
 ml> and follow the file_id.diz specs... if they cannot do that, /then/ he
 ml> would not hatch their packs...

 NB> And I simply offered another file echo to release infopacks in. 

another file area in another network... what good will that do for systems
in fidonet?

 NB> I still don't  see an issue here, 

gezzus f#ckin christ... really?? :(

 NB> or even why you got yourself involved in the first place.

i've told you numerous times that i posted to EXPLAIN THE REASON FOR THE
ORIGINAL REQUEST that you objected to...

 NB> There was no argument, or even any text back and forth between 
 NB> Robert and  myself. You just felt the need to butt in (once again).

no... i felt the need to EXFUCKINPLAIN THE DAMNED PROBLEM... nothing more...

 ml> if i had a faster and more reliable way to let you know, i would have
 ml> done so... i had not had any luck connecting since about 0500 my time
 ml> IIRC...

 NB> It's not a life or death situation, so it wasn't that big a deal. I
 NB> had  notices from other people when I got home from work, and I
 NB> fixed it as soon as  I turned on my monitors. Even if I would have
 NB> been notified earlier, I do not  have access to computers at work,
 NB> so it wouldn't have been able to be fixed  until I got home
 NB> anyways.

i thought that at least you might have been able to call the other half and
have then reset the VM or machine or something similar... well, whatever...

)\/(ark

One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a
gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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