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- Subject: Re: future of annotations in Lua?
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:29:23 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Jim once stated:
> 14.06.2019, 19:40, "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:
> >> I'm subscribed to a mailing list devoted to classic computers [1], and
> >> *they* gave up on trying to enforce non-HTML emails (and top posting, and
> >> ... ). Sadly, it's a lost cause.
> >
> > And for my case, you're wrong, the mails were sent from some machine running
> > some Linux or BSD system (anything that Google wanted for its Gmail service).
> > And they're definitely NOT old computers, but very modern ones, highly
> > optimized for efficiency and security.
>
> that was just a general EXAMPLE he gave to make his point clear.
> he wanted to emphasize how bad the situation has become and
> used the example of a mailing list "devoted to classic computers"
> which one instantly assumes to be only subscribed by old pre facebook
> luddites that do not even know html formating of message texts
> is possible. :D
Exactly! Thank you for getting my point.
-spc