\_ SMTP quoth Mike Starke on 9/28/2003 16:10 as having spake thusly:
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\_ On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:49:43PM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote:
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\_ /_David
\_ /_	Perl - a language that looks like an explosion in an ASCII factory.
\_ /_
\_ 
\_ David, you should know that I meant to cause you no flak in that comment.

Oh, I wasn't worried about it.  Now, if you had called me slimeball,
well then I might have thought about getting upset.  Maybe.  :-)  But
that'd have been out of character.  I'd probably have called you and
suggested somebody was forging email.  :-)

\_ You make me laugh. Some of the stuff you come up with just cracks me up.
\_ Not sure if that quote in your signature came from you....but thats the
\_ kind of stuff that cracks me up.

I think I pulled that one off of a bugzilla someplace, but I could be
wrong.  I try to attribute where I've taken things out of context,
annad that's unatrributed in my quotes file.

\_ Back to the 80 character limit....... :-) I never did know why that
\_ was the case. 

In the good ol' days, MUAs didn't wrap well, as Craig's already pointed
out.  I've got F12 bound to a lisp function that toggles line
truncation in the current buffer, which copes admirably well in all
situations, since not all auto-wrappers are smart enough to preserve
proper nested attribution marks (whatever they happen to be) when
reformating.  That and I'm too lazy to make emacs cope in said
situations.  :-)

David