[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com]

In article <j9ydnYP0n-mjH8TRnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, 
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
[...]
>> It's too bad setup of the Micro$uck product you use to post here isn't.
>> It must be terribly difficult to turn off the fucking quoted-pukeable.
>> 
>> One can't even extract code posted here with all of the quoted-pukeable
>> =XX turds littering it.
>> 
>You are probably one of the ONLY two people here who insist on reading 
>mail/news on a VMS system.   Face it!  VMS has been on life support for 
>at least the last fifteen years!
>

Make that at least three people!

I'm not bothered by "quoted pukeable" as much as Brian is, but it can be
distracting and annoying in its extreme forms, especially when folks don't
trim and bottom-post.

>Take a giant step into the twenty-first century!
>

When I took a VMS job in a Windows-centric shop, I was taken to task by the
Windows weenies and non-IT types, when I insisted on replying to emails on
Outhouse using fixed-width font, trimming, and bottom-posting.  I was even
accused by one administrative business type of being "rude" by doing so!
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