Subject: Re: About the Pine-Info mailing list

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:17:02 -0700 (PDT)

On 23 Apr 1998, Robin S. Socha wrote:

RSS} ....
RSS} Ummm, we're all on it, aren't we? Was that some kind of test posting
RSS} for the people that are now subscribing?

For one thing, it was to test to see how the message with the URL would now
look like. ;-) But also: The list currently has 278 subscribers, many of
which probably subscribed eons ago (when this was still a Majordomo-run
list, a mirror of comp.mail.pine, etc.), so I intend to send that out as an
occasional reminder of the list's purpose in the grand scheme of the
universe and all that ...

RSS} > http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/
RSS} 
RSS} I'd put those in <> to make them browsable.

Uh, come again ("make them browsable"?) ... ?

RSS} ....

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 24 Apr 1998 07:47:46 +0200

> Mr Kramer has been assimilated by [email-masked]:

> ....  
>> Ummm, we're all on it, aren't we? Was that some kind of test posting
>> for the people that are now subscribing?

> For one thing, it was to test to see how the message with the URL
> would now look like. ;-) 

Not good I'd say. Put that stuff in the footer. Something like:

--
       PLEASE read the Pine FAQ and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
	  LIST: http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/???
	  FAQ: http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/???
    To unsubscribe: send mail to [email-masked]
	       with "unsubscribe" in the message body.

Mind the sigdashes ;-) BTW, your quoting stuff is not son-of-RFC-1632
conformant or something. Even SuperCite cannot handle it. Can pico?
Just kidding...

> But also: The list currently has 278 subscribers, many of which
> probably subscribed eons ago (when this was still a Majordomo-run
> list, a mirror of comp.mail.pine, etc.), so I intend to send that
> out as an occasional reminder of the list's purpose in the grand
> scheme of the universe and all that ...

Oh. I see... World Domination? Good idea.

>> > http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/ 
>> I'd put those in <> to make them browsable.

Ummm... Welcome to the 90s, Stefan of Borg. You know, there's this
thing called "WWW". It's got KeWL pixxx and stuff, and people like to
go there with their MUAs. Therefore some kind people did this:
   <http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/pine-tips.html#lynxspawn>
and this:
  <http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/pine-tips.html#pine-lynx.pl>
so that pine can fire up lynx. Actually, the latter would get along
fine without the brackets, but it's better style to have them, I
guess.

Later,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha                <http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/>
Robin, you cannot be *that* stooopid, can you? (Tim Smith)