[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

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In article <hbhm16$ar4$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
>In article
><f5b6cb43-4328-4b26-b5d8-fd662df8cbde at m11g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
>BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes: 
>
>> On Oct 19, 3:08=A0am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
>
>Bill's full reply is below.
>
>Let me kindly suggest, not just with respect to VMS freeware activities, 
>the following:
>
>   o  Don't quote too much text
>
>   o  Don't post quoted-printable stuff to a text-based newsgroup like 
>      comp.os.vms
>
>Discussion is good, but it needs to be easy so that no time is wasted.  
>The points above make it easier and, of course, apply to all newsgroup 
>posts.  Also, though you didn't do so:
>
>   o  Don't top-post
>
>is also an essential rule.
>
>With regard to the quoted-printable stuff: it might be that you always 
>see the text "correctly" because of some software conversion.  But other 
>folks might not.
>
>Note that there is also no need to encode anything I wrote, since I used
>only 7-bit printable US-ASCII.  Why encode a space as "=A0", for
>example? 

What he said!!!  ;)

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