On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:58:17PM +0000, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
> On 04.01.25 16:59, karl@??? wrote:
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> > Erik Christiansen:
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> > > On 04.01.25 13:25, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
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> > > > Is it really really necessary to have a blank line between every text
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> > > > line?
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> > > Apologies, snowflake, for your inability to deal with a world
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> > > which is unaware of and unconcerned by your obsessional fetishes and
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> > > curiously narcissistic world view.
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> > ...
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> > There is really no need to be sarcastic.
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> The post to which Ralph offered only a self-centred negative complaint,
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> was a positive reply to a quest for information, i.e. helpful in intent
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> and hopefully informative to some degree. Thanks are not required, but
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> exclusively whining about trivia is unhelpful.
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> > > P.S. For more rational readers: It was the ghastly ISP-provided webified
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> > > MUA which did the cooky double spacing. (Mutt -> Postfix -> ISP stopped
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> > > working some time ago, as they handed email off to another entity.)
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> >
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> > Even "more rational readers" can be annoyed by double spacing, and if
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> > there is a problem with your ISP, complain to them.
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> If the OP found my lived experience with Devuan a positive influence on
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> his doubts about switching distro, then I am fully content.
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> As stated, the ISP has off-loaded email provision, and the discard
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> service off-shoring for a number of ISPs provides only the web
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> interface. Complaining is ineffectual. Buying SMTP email access from another ISP may be an option,
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> but at another $120 p.a. on top of the base $480 p.a., an expense for a
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> retiree to reflect on, as the unsatisfactory status quo does in fact
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> function.
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> TBT, I too was annoyed by the double spacing when it came back, so the
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> irritation is not lost on me. The question is how long till I pay up to
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> fix it. (I'm more annoyed by being unable to provide proper threading
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> headers.)
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> Erik
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> P.S. To avoid inflicting on the list an additional afflicted reply, I
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> offer here a sig for the education of any who imagine entitlement trumps
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> an effort at positive contribution.
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> --
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> "I am not responsible for the structural integrity
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> of the bubble you’ve chosen to live in." -- Mike Norton

You do you.

cheers,

Ralph.

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