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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
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|    18 Mar 19 19:06:50    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58 4ba8b187       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0400       REPLY: 2:250/1.1 4b75890b       Hello Martin,               MF> 17.03.19 8:56:00, Kurt Weiske wrote to Martin Foster:               KW>> ..it seemed weird reading mail in a GUI and using Notepad to        KW>> edit replies...               MF> It still does seem weird reading mail in a GUI and it probably always        MF> will, simply because I was brought up on DOS. Can't beat plain ASCII text                     As a pre-Windows days programmer working in mono-spacing editors all day,       suddenly using a proportional-spacing editor and the option to change a font       style, felt weird, indeed.              But NOW, proportional spacing (courtesy of gui interfaces) seems best for       conversational content.                                   ../|ug              --- WinPoint Beta 5 (359.1)        * Origin: Reluctantly Revisiting Fidonet (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/17 229/107 426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/624 854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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