Subj : Notice To : Nicholas Boel From : mark lewis Date : Sat Feb 22 2014 19:50:19 On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis: ml> they look pretty crappy to me... they're not wrapped, either... they ml> are too long and truncated... NB> If they would be displayed exactly how they were created and NB> released, there would not be a problem. The mess up is when the NB> software decides to wrap the text where it was never meant to be NB> wrapped. no, the posted crap is from the TIC descriptions... i've no clue if they were DESC lines or fouled up LDESC lines... those files are from 2013... NB> By the way, there was another release in UTILNET yesterday with NB> your spacing and ASCII border stuff you like so much. That's two NB> days in a row now! I don't think you're going to get anywhere with NB> this idea of yours. it is not *my* idea... geez, nick... :( ml> there's still roughly 1000 to fix in the one group... the really ml> cruddy part is that some (maybe most) of them do have file_id.diz but ml> they are broken dizes... they have *nix EOL (end of line) characters ml> instead of the traditional format using CRLF (carriage return and line ml> feed)... as such, they break database pretty badly and still require ml> manual editing to fix them :( NB> I don't feel sorry for you one bit. :) whatever... ml> discussed... i'm just an average joe sysop here... one who is, ml> admittedly, quite peeved because of how his files areas look because ml> of others' frak-ups... NB> I'm truely sorry you feel that way. Then again, no I'm not. whatever... NB>> No. It was NOT a reply to Robert's post. ml> you had to hit the [R]eply button to quote it, nick... it was a ml> reply... NB> Actually, no. I hit ALT-Q to quote the text, and then put ALL in NB> the To: Field - all normal workings of GoldEd+. Don't ASSume what NB> I did or did not do. exactly... don't assume you know how all other software operates, what kind of crap has been distributed or how others want to display their file descriptions... NB>> The message was (on purpose, mind you) directed to ALL. ml> it doesn't matter who it was addressed to... followups, which some of ml> your software can do, are also replies even though they are addressed ml> by default to the same person the one being quoted was responding ml> to... NB> Followups are only in newsreaders. bullshit... you obviously don't know your FTN software... Remote Access (BBS), FrontDoor (mailer) and TimED (editor) have had followups since the JAM message base format was introduced... most all JAM related software since then has the same capabilities... NB> And seriously, now you're getting annoying. welcome to my world :/ ml> no he doesn't... his FDN is infopacks! he asked that people respect ml> and follow the file_id.diz specs... if they cannot do that, /then/ he ml> would not hatch their packs... NB> And I simply offered another file echo to release infopacks in. another file area in another network... what good will that do for systems in fidonet? NB> I still don't see an issue here, gezzus f#ckin christ... really?? :( NB> or even why you got yourself involved in the first place. i've told you numerous times that i posted to EXPLAIN THE REASON FOR THE ORIGINAL REQUEST that you objected to... NB> There was no argument, or even any text back and forth between NB> Robert and myself. You just felt the need to butt in (once again). no... i felt the need to EXFUCKINPLAIN THE DAMNED PROBLEM... nothing more... ml> if i had a faster and more reliable way to let you know, i would have ml> done so... i had not had any luck connecting since about 0500 my time ml> IIRC... NB> It's not a life or death situation, so it wasn't that big a deal. I NB> had notices from other people when I got home from work, and I NB> fixed it as soon as I turned on my monitors. Even if I would have NB> been notified earlier, I do not have access to computers at work, NB> so it wouldn't have been able to be fixed until I got home NB> anyways. i thought that at least you might have been able to call the other half and have then reset the VM or machine or something similar... well, whatever... )\/(ark One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin --- FMail/Win32 1.60 * Origin: (1:3634/12.71) .