Re: testing; and a few questions

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>there is a blank-line between the 3-header lines and the article (and
>you could colour the headers in a different colour (i.e. green on
>black vs. grey on black (but I don't use colour)).

Yeah, but people put in blank lines in their messages, therefore
it's not something you can as readily tune your eyes to pick up.


>> another, smaller argument that not showing the header after the first 
>> page is a better use of space, but I think fewer people are actually 
>> reading at 24 Columns these days.
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>I always do.

Yeah, me too, so 1/6 of the space always to the header feels like 
a waste.

>> Also, I can't really use ANSI colors; or at least need
>> to both fiddle with my TERM settings in putty as well as cycle through
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>if you use a non color-terminal (entry) of course you can't use
>colors.

Well, some colors show up. Maybe vt100 isn't so feature rich?
But I do prefer monochrome, just like you.

>missing unicode-support, missing charset conversation, no
>internationalization, minimal mime support, lots of possible
>bufferoverruns, no gpg support, no key-remapping, no URL-handling,
>no sorting on score, MH-list feature broken, ...

Good to know. Still, I find that header *really* annoying,
and have lived for years with the stuff you list. 

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