Hello mark,

On 22 Feb 14 08:55, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> They do not have to do anything. It may look like crap somewhere,
 NB>> but  elsewhere it will look fine. It all depends on what software
 NB>> the sysop chooses  to use.

 ml> not doing anything is doing something ;)  everyone has to do something
 ml> even if it is nothing... in this case, nothing would equate to
 ml> possibly having crappy looking (wrapped or not) file descriptions...

Are you done chasing your tail yet?

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 ml> The

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

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

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

 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 :(

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

 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...

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

 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...

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

 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...

Followups are only in newsreaders. And seriously, now you're getting annoying.

 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...

And I simply offered another file echo to release infopacks in. I still don't 
see an issue here, or even why you got yourself involved in the first place. 
There was no argument, or even any text back and forth between Robert and 
myself. You just felt the need to butt in (once again).

 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...

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

Regards,
Nick

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