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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:38:07 -0600
From:      "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd
Message-ID:  <082AF774-7886-4E56-8482-768A7FE6E5EF@kreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org>
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On 13 Jun 2020, at 09:44, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:09:43PM -0600, @lbutlr wrote:
>> On 10 Jun 2020, at 11:54, doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> wrote:
>>> See =
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#id=
p44832888

>> Seems very out of date too me. For example the first thing it says is =
to wrap messages at 75 characters  because not everyone uses GUI =
mailers. This may have been relevant in 1995, but it sure isn=E2=80=99t =
now. CLI MUA=E2=80=99s handle long lines just fine.

> If you had wrapped at 75 characters then the quoting would be much =
easier to read.

Then your MUA is very poor at its job.



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