Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:37:26 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <CAGBxaXkACY1f_uyFESTYY-boPWPRtWCj63Z_GoKVrpa415cc3g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B4TWFvTjLvPyRTyeJDqiuHss=A6GecuAH=nt7y5ROvaa8viVA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org> <13115.1592302784@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20200616071153.00006f4d@seibercom.net> <CA%2B4TWFuWN1BV=FftC1xNCYRgqwX%2BCb=wMg_L9MxFHx17Nzjm5Q@mail.gmail.com> <20200616075548.000066f1@seibercom.net> <20200616140416.bd7b8bf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2B4TWFtgaMkJWAOuvEpSg2TOo2hrG-P7EHJUigCQwgQw3iXtWQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200616142043.7d599458.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2B4TWFvf7w=4djQfWLtXhqmip0Rb72Js6BbOW=F_gUkufXuQFw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaX=AG7gi_2B0srPdJ6hGxaO%2B61APREHOL8WmUKvO8s%2Bt%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <20200616092901.000002f7@seibercom.net> <CAGBxaXkCLvpuswhLuyuRh=UeDm_Xk8JF87KURysrkPbL4Q0qEw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B4TWFt9grnS0_zhZh8ag9tGC_7xkeSVEK8EHnf=m2m-8tmsRg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkWps%2BNLJvrUdnhjg2HV32cTXTRXHEjrgb%2BAaaAocFSOA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B4TWFsawpbAyTx_aro01f_0vi1%2BtQ1sfVBoDvrKD_oONX8UGQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXnVZwPCB1Ltx6xhEyi7u0606GXNkvBTUG9FUSPrmvOjew@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B4TWFvc7YukFsxZyD0v_T7k7-O4bDLUqpttC5AFXK2hWwXqqQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaX=HhXPj9CftKbaSyx_4aEmobhgGtiDTJXTUC_ohjUyROQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B4TWFtnVxjV5nypgLmkDDYQKYzUmSA8_fuRe%2BRkCurwGtT%2BxA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmj7zGsXhmPW42KFFVN26N%2BZYA3LiO2=zmk6DOn48LT0w@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B4TWFvTjLvPyRTyeJDqiuHss=A6GecuAH=nt7y5ROvaa8viVA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:27 AM Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:18 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The reason why a smartphone is called 'Smart', is exactly that. It can > load a multitude of email clients, all perfectly capable of rendering > emails > 80 characters. > Again you missed the point completely it is not that the email is limited to 80 chars it is the lines are and longer lines broken at unpredictable places are unreadable. And as your comment on SMS and gluing together not all phone users use smart phones there are people who prefer and/or require dumb flip phones. Good example is ultra Orthodox Jews (and I suspect other ultrarigious people in other faiths) who consider the fact that you can access stuff that is impure (i.e. porn, gossip [gossip is forbidden by the Talmud] and foul language) on the Internet that using the Internet (except for work and/or life critical applications) is forbidden (or at least to be used as little as possible since many things require Internet access these days). For this reason the same ultra Orthodox refuse to use smart phones and instead use flip phones (you can buy "kosher" phones in Israel but they are incompatible with American networks). Only smart phones will not fragment the message. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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