Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (05/07/91)
>>>>> On 6 May 91 19:42:57 GMT, brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) said: Brendan> In <a_rubin.673550723@dn71>, a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com writes: >Is anyone else annoyed by Jym's: > >--- line 1 > -- line 2 > - line 3 Brendan> Please, keep this in mail, will ya? Brendan> Early last summer, when I first saw his style, it bothered me a Brendan> little, but I got used to it. Now I really don't care -- even when I Brendan> see people occasionally imitating it. I suggest you relax. > I have written him asking him why he does it, and have as yet had no > reply, so I am posting to the net. Brendan> Spare the net. Indeed. Perhaps if folks had GNU Emacs' add-on SuperCite (mailing list: supercite-request@warsaw.nlm.nih.gov) in their arsenal like me [demonstrated above] they wouldn't pick on Jym. I also come to the keyboard armed with un-citers.
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[ Comp.emacs readers who don't use SuperCite should disregard this message. ] Dan "WAY K00L SUPORSITE D00D" Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: > >>>>> On 6 May 91 19:42:57 GMT, brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) said: > StuporCite> Please, keep this in mail, will ya? > StuporCite> Early last summer, when I first saw his style, it bothered me a > StuporCite> little, but I got used to it. Now I really don't care -- even when > StuporCite> see people occasionally imitating it. I suggest you relax. > > > I have written him asking him why he does it, and have as yet had no > > reply, so I am posting to the net. > > StuporCite> Spare the net. > > Indeed. Perhaps if folks had GNU Emacs' add-on SuperCite (mailing > list: STUPORCITE-request@warsaw.nlm.nih.gov) in their arsenal like me > [demonstrated above] they wouldn't pick on Jym. I also come to the > keyboard armed with un-citers. Well, take your redundant space-wasting half-witted SuperCite headings and SHOVE THEM! If you really feel some deep need to be reminded whose posting you are quoting on EVERY SINGLE BLEEDIN' LINE then either: (a) get an attention span larger than that of the average goldfish, or (b) waste *your* CPU time processing articles into WAY K00L SUPORCITE FORMAT locally instead of inflicting them on those of us who have to PAY for bandwidth. mathew [ Now you know why we call it alt.flame. ]
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (05/08/91)
>>>>> On 7 May 91 11:00:33 GMT, mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) said:
M> (a) get an attention span larger than that of the average goldfish, or
There, your indent took up 4 chars. My SuperCiting took 2. Nya nya,
whatever. But mainly we can't read alt.flame here, so that's why I
appear to not follow-up. Case closed. I resume mature posting mode.mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) (05/09/91)
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