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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Purdy boundary
Date: 18 Nov 1998 13:55:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wh90h9yxb6.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: luis fernandes's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:02:30 -0500"

>>>>> luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>:

>> :-> (<-- that's not my suggestion, btw; it's a smiley for "devil's
> advocate". But I've always had a fondness for the "cut-here"
> ideograms for a pair of scissors, in the olden days before MIME; I
> don't know if that methaphor applies, though (and they nest quite nicely):

> --8<--
> --8<--8<--

Scissors! Scissors! Scissors!

This would actually look better than any MIME-boundary I've yet seen,
for die-hard oldtimers that still doesn't have a MUA supporting MIME.

Good suggestion!


  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-18 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-18  2:52 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-18 11:02 ` Didier Verna
1998-11-18 12:02   ` luis fernandes
1998-11-18 12:55     ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1998-11-18 13:28       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-18 11:51 ` Fredrik Glöckner
1998-11-18 13:17   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-18 20:21   ` George J McNinch
1998-11-19  2:09     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-19  9:28     ` Fredrik Glöckner
1998-11-20  2:07       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] ` <6faf1p9nbv.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-18 13:24   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]     ` <6f7lwt9lah.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-11-18 13:53       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-18 18:16 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-11-19  2:08   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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