A83: Maillist ediquitte/some other stuff
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A83: Maillist ediquitte/some other stuff
first off, i'm new to assembly programming (much less on calculators), and i don't like my mailbox being flooded with maillist messages, so i
have been recieving the messages in digest mode. It's really great, and you all should try it sometime, provided that the users of the list
follow some basic "niceness" to everyone else... well they haven't so i've made some guidelines i hope you all follow:
- when replying, only quote the first 5-15 lines of the original message, or selectivley quote it.
(quoting a 450 line message just sucks. [eg. in one digest message i have seen a quoted message in which there are at least 50 lines like
this: ">>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed". this is very annoying to me because i've already read that message, the
message that quotes it, the message that quotes the message that quotes it, the message that quotes the message that quotes the message that
quotes it, ad. inf.] )
- this has been said before, but don't put more then a 4-5 line piece of ascii art in your message unless it has some relevance to your
subject.
- don't send stupid messages (like "you suck"), and don't reply to stupid messages. let the maillist admin deal with retarded underserving
pond scum.
- the "Subject:" field is there for a reason in an email; use it!
(a lot of messages that change topic in mid-thread have the same subject... very annoying to both normal and digest recieving subscribers)
- source code in the message is nice, and i like to see it, but like... well, if possible; include an ftp or http link where you can
view/download it online. even if it is besides the source in the email, a internet link where the source can be downloaded helps a lot if you
don't want to copy + paste to a new file and then edit out any extreneous line feed characters, etc.
- the easiest way to reply to a message is to reply, tell your email program to quote the original text, and then delete everything to be
forwarded that doesn't have direct relevence to your message. use an elipsis "..." on a line to indicate where you cut out text in the
middle, a pound sign "#" for text you cut out at the beginning of the quoted text, and a tilde "~" for text you cut out at the end (i use this
a lot with those listbot and juno adv.s because adv.s look ugly when you quote them, like you don't know how to use an email client properly).
okay, the other stuff:
i'm making an email program for the TI-83 (and maybe other calcs when i have time). i don't know where to start about making the word
processor part. i can't decide if i should remap the TI letter designations and make it more qwerty-like or what ever... it will support
upper/lower case though, and all of the 101-key keyboard ascii characters. it's gonna be more word processor than email client, but it will
support the cable/IR/RF links (RF link is gonna be worked out soon, i hope) and Calculator ID designations (like email addresses... only
different).
what should i start out with? i'd like to manage the power, so that i can do a direct input in a sort of reduced power mode (_getkey just
won't cut it), but i don't know how to do this. Also, some sort of word based compression would definately help, if it were small enough to
implement... i hope one of you people can help me out with compression, i am only familiar with the concepts and not designing the algorithms
and using them. Does anyone know exactly what causes the calc to screw up in SOS with rom v1.0800 with the 2nd+ON thing? I want to avoid
that, and maybe patch sos myself because i've been making my calc reset way too much by accident. heh.
well i appreciate you reading my message, and i hope you all follow the guidelines at top for the sake of digest subscribers ;o] (some
input into my ti e-mail program inquiries would be very much appreciated also).
Peace.
-Rade
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Eric Shattow aka "RadonEatr" [ribbit@uss.net]
http://members.uss.net/ribbit/
Student
New Trier High School
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