Someone whose name might be Marc might have written: >>>> Peter Coghlan wrote: >>>> Does anyone use ASCII anymore? >>> >>> I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator. >>> I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126. >> >> I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behind a SSL VPN and mandate >> the use of Outlook, then force all messages to be in quoted-printable >> encoding. This way nobody “wins” and everyone is equally miserable. >> It’s only fair. >
C'mon, quoted-printable is usually fairly readable. How about base-64? Or if this is regarded as too modern or too universal, how about uuencoding? > > +1 on the Exchange server. You might even be able to have more than 2 people > connected to it at the same time without crashing, if you put enough admins > on the problem. > You can't use an Exchange server. I believe Exchange servers silently discard messages whose message-id it has previously seen. This would solve (actually hide) the duplicated messages problem and we can't have that! > > But I would strongly suggest that we limit it to using characters from the > Baudot set. If not they don’t print right on my 1930 Teletype. > > Also Darwin recently wrote a paper about us, and revoked his theory of > evolution. > > Unlike the God-awfull Yahoo Groups, Groups.io works OK for the other lists > I follow. Meaning it’s functional and tolerable, and only moderately > infuriating. But it is certainly not as clean and efficient as this list > by a good margin. It would be good if we could preserve this. > > Maybe evolve to the use of pictures or attachments, just to prove Darwin > wrong? Limited to ASCII art only pictures, of course. > Hang on, what about those who prefer their art in upper case EBCDIC only? Regards, Peter Coghlan > > Marc