Re: A83: Maillist ediquitte/some other stuff

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Re: A83: Maillist ediquitte/some other stuff


woops spelled thesaurus wrond, sorry y'all.

-Phelan 'Amen' Wolf

PS: oh yea what was that about how many lines allowed in the quotes?

>From owner-assembly-83-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se Sat 
Sep 12 19:16:29 1998
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>From: "Phelan Wolf" <phelanwolf@hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: A83: Maillist ediquitte/some other stuff
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>well okay mister moderator sir, I'll listen to you, whoever the hell 
you 
>are.  Also I have a few questions...
>
>1).  Okay, is it okay to quote famous people like Winston Churchill or    
>Bill Nagel or James Mathews or Linus, or Bill Clinton, or Kennith    
>Starr, or General Eisenhower, or myself, or you, or the Queen of      
>England, or Holland, what about Tanzania, etc...
>
>2).  If I do quote a famous person, as mentioned above, must I keep it    
>to 5 lines or will 7 'be acceptable in thine eyes oh Lord'.
>
>3).  Are we allowed to do this: ">>> inc hl; We'll put this here to    
>waste some space", with 3 carats or must it be kept to 1.  What if    
we 
>use hyphens or smilies.
>
>4).  Is it acceptable to be Jewish, use 3 carats, quote only 7 lines    
>of aforementioned people, in a pit of kosher meat (of course), with    
3 
>carats after the first 3.
>
>5).  Can it be: ">>>>>> dec hl; We'll put this here to waste some    
>space", or does this apply to inc's and dec's.  What about sra's    and 
>sla's, ldir's and ldi's and rr's and ex's, what about jr's and    jp's.
>
>6).  Okay...so your driving down the road in your canoe, replying to    
>an e-mail about programming the TI-92, with a monkey in your    
>britches, and a wheel falls of the canoe.  How many carats are we    
>allowed to use in the e-mail, permitting the canoe is 3 years old?
>
>And now for some gratuitus ASCII pictures of the president's penis to 
>annoy the censures and get the public off their butts and back onto the 
>computers....
>
>...plus the starr report, all 75 pages of the abridged version, two 
>copies of 'War and Remeberences', the abridged version of the world's 
>language dictionary, two Webster theasauruses and a PAARRTRIDGE IN A 
>PEAARRRR TRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
>
>()---
>
>   /
>  /
>()
>
>
>>From owner-assembly-83-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se Sat 
>Sep 12 12:43:42 1998
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>>From: Eric Shattow <ribbit@uss.net>
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>
>just a little bit further...
>
>>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
>
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>>>>>>> inc hl ; We'll waste space here to gain some speed
>
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>--
>>Eric Shattow aka "RadonEatr" [ribbit@uss.net]
>>http://members.uss.net/ribbit/
>>Student
>>New Trier High School
>>
>>
>>
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