Subj : OT: aside (was: Market A
To   : mark lewis
From : Paul Rogers
Date : Mon Jan 10 2005 06:32 pm

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 ml> i gotta ask, after seeing the above for many months...
 ml> what's it all about considering there's no such thing as
 ml> any content other than plain ascii text in fidonet? ;)

I put that in because most of my readers are getting this
via email directly.  So they have a variety of MIME compliant
readers, typically using proportional fonts.  But proportional
fonts really mess-up the spacing of the "mini-charts" I include.
As simply as possible, so it's not too objectional to others
such as this Fido echo, I'm trying to persuade many of the
readers to use a fixed-width font to line-up the charts.

 ml> i guess i should also tell you that everything that comes from your
 ml> host gets  sidelined as not being y2k compliant... how? because most
 ml> of the messages, yours?, are dated like Jan 5, 33 (for

My DOS/W31 system seems to be, but I can't say for yea or nay
this mm reader.  My Juno v1.49 client, which has protected me
from uncounted viruses and worms quit working 1/1/05, unless
I set the date back a year while it initializes, so it detects
the date well enough.  Juno has noticed and I received a phone
call this week that they're sending me a new CD.  I wonder if
the software will run on a DOS/W31 system.  ;-)  Looks like I
need to start thinking of something new, but after 10 years I
dread trying to change my "address".

 ml> 2005) and blah blah 32 (for 2004)... i can't tell from here
 ml> if it is your system or dave emory's but i do note that his
 ml> system is noted for not being y2k compliant and that if he
 ml> is forced to update, he'd rather pull the plug... can you

Don't suggest he do THAT!!  I don't think there's many options
for me.  If he goes, so do I.

 ml> elaborate? if it wasn't for me (and others) still running
 ml> special y2k software that corrects invalid dates, none of
 ml> your messages would make it thru my (and other's)
 ml> system('s) (among others)...

Thanks.  I know Fido's less than a shadow of it's former stuff
but I'd miss not having this sort of interaction.  The web just
isn't the same.

Paul Rogers, paulgrogers@yahoo.com                       -o)
http://www.angelfire.com/or/paulrogers                   /\\
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