Re: testing; and a few questions

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:53:12AM -0000, [email protected] wrote:
> >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.

but the suff above the blankline is fixed, text below a blankline in
the body is not, it will move when you scroll up/down.

> >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?

I'm not a terminal expert, but real (hardware) VT100/VT102 do not
have colour so the Vt100 emulation should not have colour too.

> >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. 

well then just use tin 1.4.7, but don't expect any support/bugfixes
for that. I don't think that anyone will resurrect the 1.4.x-tree.

urs
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