Re: AG/Olympus - Time for your own Newsgroup?

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow) writes:
> Does this indicate a "broken" newsreader or is this what many people
> see?

It indicates a broken newsreader.

> If a large number of people see the messages broken up, then I'd
> be wary of calling it "broken", any more than I'd call a Web browser
> that can't handle all the Netscape stuff "broken".

I'm not calling any Web browsers broken.  I will, however, call "broken"
mail readers that start trying to uudecode mail attachments whenever they
see "begin" at the beginning of a line.

(There is an extra bit in the oly player info struct to work around
this for a particular player who is forced to use some brain-damaged
Windows mail software.)

> Is there any way to format the *digests* so they aren't broken up by
> anyone's reader?

I suppose the digestifier software could quote the headers in the body.
It would be better if we found the broken newsreaders and fixed them,
though.

Maybe someone with one of these broken newsreaders can tell me what
the following looks like:

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Subject: Your newsreader is broken
Date: 30 Jul 1995 17:51:39 EDT
Message-ID: <123@pbm.com>

If you see this message as a stand-alone post in rec.games.pbm (i.e. not as
part of another message), please email me and tell me what newsreader you
are using.  Thanks.

References

Re: AG/Olympus - Time for your own Newsgroup?
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: AG/Olympus - Time for your own Newsgroup?
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000