On 04.01.25 16:59, karl@??? wrote:

> Erik Christiansen:

> > On 04.01.25 13:25, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:

> > > Is it really really necessary to have a blank line between every text

> > > line?

> > Apologies, snowflake, for your inability to deal with a world

> > which is unaware of and unconcerned by your obsessional fetishes and

> > curiously narcissistic world view.

> ...

> There is really no need to be sarcastic.

The post to which Ralph offered only a self-centred negative complaint,

was a positive reply to a quest for information, i.e. helpful in intent

and hopefully informative to some degree. Thanks are not required, but

exclusively whining about trivia is unhelpful.

> > P.S. For more rational readers: It was the ghastly ISP-provided webified

> > MUA which did the cooky double spacing. (Mutt -> Postfix -> ISP stopped

> > working some time ago, as they handed email off to another entity.)

>

> Even "more rational readers" can be annoyed by double spacing, and if

> there is a problem with your ISP, complain to them.

If the OP found my lived experience with Devuan a positive influence on

his doubts about switching distro, then I am fully content.

As stated, the ISP has off-loaded email provision, and the discard

service off-shoring for a number of ISPs provides only the web

interface. Complaining is ineffectual. Buying SMTP email access from another ISP may be an option,

but at another $120 p.a. on top of the base $480 p.a., an expense for a

retiree to reflect on, as the unsatisfactory status quo does in fact

function.

TBT, I too was annoyed by the double spacing when it came back, so the

irritation is not lost on me. The question is how long till I pay up to

fix it. (I'm more annoyed by being unable to provide proper threading

headers.)

Erik

P.S. To avoid inflicting on the list an additional afflicted reply, I

offer here a sig for the education of any who imagine entitlement trumps

an effort at positive contribution.

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"I am not responsible for the structural integrity

of the bubble you’ve chosen to live in." -- Mike Norton