[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com wrote:
> 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!
> [...]

Customs differ!  Ignoring custom will win you few friends among the 
people whose customs you are ignoring.