Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Earl, > I have the habit of always converting HTML emails I received into > plain text when I reply Me too! :-) > I did not know Pythogorous wrote in English. If in ASCII, it would > be: Ignoring the malformed octal... ;-) $ egrep '^( +[0-9]{3})+$' ~/mail/inbox/11661 | > tr -s '

Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread Earl Hood
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, wrote: > No. They were not. Before the advent of Mime, that came with the Tower of > Babel, all was was ASCII. If you want to go down the pendantic route, than it was not ASCII. ASCII is how one encodes textual data (in a computer), so if what you say is true, t

Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread norm
Ken Hornstein writes: > I hate to be pedantic (okay, I don't really), but wouldn't the Tablets > of Stone have been written in a Hebrew script, No. They were not. Before the advent of Mime, that came with the Tower of Babel, all was was ASCII. > Also, I do not think you could accurately repre

Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread Ken Hornstein
>ASCII was good enough for my father and his father before him, and his father >before him. The tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, were in >ASCII, as were Newton's Principia, the Magna Carta, and the United States >Declaration of Independence. I hate to be pedantic (okay, I don't re

Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread Earl Hood
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, wrote: > ASCII was good enough for my father and his father before him, and his father > before him. The tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, were in > ASCII, as were Newton's Principia, the Magna Carta, and the United States > Declaration of Indepe

Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Fox
n...@dad.org wrote: > ASCII was good enough for my father and his father before him, and his father > before him. The tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, were in > ASCII, ... but imagine how much more fun they'd have been, with pictures and an audio soundtrack. ;-) =

[Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

2014-07-16 Thread norm
ASCII was good enough for my father and his father before him, and his father before him. The tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, were in ASCII, as were Newton's Principia, the Magna Carta, and the United States Declaration of Independence. MIME is a Communist, Fascist, Perverse, Pap