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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:38:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote:
>I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't
>hard.

>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Finally, you (Igor) are right that we are not going to change the
>>sourceware.org software to wrap in any other fashion than it does now.

sourceware.org, the home of cygwin.com, is a technical site.  The mailing
lists that it sponsors are for technical discussions.

In these discussions, the formatting of messages could conceivably
actually *mean something*.  It's entirely possible that someone meant to
use 997 characters in one of the lines of their message to illustrate a
point or even to provide a patch.

So, I am not going to be spending my time hacking on the mailing list
archiving software to add a special exception for cygwin mailing list
denizens who want to forget about hitting enter and then read their
messages on the web.  If the use of <pre> in the archives causes you
problems, then please suffer in silence or find some other archiving
site.  Maybe gmane would work better.

Please do not insinuate that there is some technical or laziness barrier
here.  You are perched precariously on your soapbox and apparently
haven't really given the issue any real contextual thought other than
"It's easy to do.  They should do it."

Is this clear?  There will be no changes to the web site archiving.  So,
if this is what is causing everyone grave concern, then maybe this puts
this issue to rest.

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