Miata Mailing List: August 1997, Message #169


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From: 	Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com>

Subject: Message Readability

Date: 	Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:22:27 +0000




On 8/2/97 19:36, ID (silversurfer@technologist.com) wrote:



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> Ok folks I am about to change the tranny oil w/ MTL and I've got

>a couple of questions:

>

><P>1). My tranny filler plug wasn't really screwed in all the way (ie there...



<soapbox mode ON>



Nothing personal, but could you please turn off HTML when posting to the 

list? It's fairly distracting to those of us who don't use web browsers 

to read our mail, and discourages us from reading your messages at all.



Other folks (you know who you are) should also remember that 8-bit 

characters such as curly quotes, degree symbols, and letters with 

diacriticals do not always survive the passage through 7-bit unix 

machines between you and us, and usually come out as garbage; this 

doesn't begin to address platform or international differences in 

character sets, which can also add to the confusion. Please limit 

yourselves to standard characters, and everyone will be able to read your 

Deathless Thoughts as you wrote them.



In the name of better communication, thanks.



<soapbox mode OFF>



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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis

'94C. Red, of course.

Team "My other car is a...er...hmmm...gee, I can't remember..."
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