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|    Anton Shepelev to Ardith Hinton    |
|    Jokes of the season    |
|    11 Sep 21 23:19:38    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 613d0f52       REPLY: 1:153/716.0 125b89b0       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20210704       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2021-08-03       Ardith Hinton:              > I didn't see any line on my screen which ran over 72       > characters here, although my software can handle up to 80.              Ironically, this very paragrph of yours is written as a single       line 472 characters wrong... er, long :-) Now that I made this       slip, it reminds of a Buddy Guy album titled "74 years young,"       which I did not care for, but his guitar work on Big Mama       Thornton's "Hound dog" is top notch! Yes, that was the original       "Hound dog" that Elvis Presley turned into a joke, posing with a       hound dog for the promotion poster. Here's my friend's take on it:              https://soundcloud.com/anton-shepelev/hound-dog-blues-version-cover              > I'm not at all concerned about lines which are shorter than       > what you intended because I think that makes them easier for less       > fluent speakers of English to interpret. If the lines are longer       > than what you intended, or if other people's software omits words       > such as "not" when a line is quoted & requoted, I consider that       > to be a more serious issue.              Indeed. Considerate treatment of message text is one of the key       requirements in GNKSA -- Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval.              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 153/757 154/10       SEEN-BY: 218/840 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/424 426 664 700 1017       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 282/1038 301/1 317/3 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/200 770/1 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 221/6 229/664 426           |
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