[sf-lug] ANALYSYS--EXPLANATION Re: request for help re ssh -- sshd login failure

[jim]

Thank you. Wow! I never tho't to refer to the
archives (I've got local copies of this and
several other LUG emails.
     As a rule, I hit  <ENTER>  at about 40
or 50 characters. The default Thunderbird
editor presents longer lines when I'm typing;
Now I see the forced wraps that force a
bit of some lines below for a disastrous
reading experience.
     No offense taken, thank you for the
revelation.





On 02/10/2016 08:36 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I have experienced the same difficulty reading these replies from Jim 
> and also was concerned about creating offense. Jim, I hope that you 
> can make your replies more readable! Until then I will continue to 
> attempt to read them, but it's rather difficult. You can get a sense 
> of how difficult by looking at the archived mail: 
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q1/011676.html
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com 
> <mailto:rick at linuxmafia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com <mailto:jim at well.com>):
>
>     > I try to explain each command in my comments, interspersed below.
>
>     I appreciate the effort you go do, in constructing that interspersion:
>     I'm guesssing you are doing that entirely manually, which implies a
>     semi-heroic editing effort.
>
>     I see you use Mozilla Thunderbird.  Back when I used Thunderbird for
>     corporate mail, I found that it did decent quoting automatically but
>     that its internal text editor was lacking.  I used a Thunderbrd
>     extension that permitted use of any arbitrary external editor, and
>     then
>     just used vim as that editor.  These days, there is an all-in-one
>     solution called Muttator, which you can find here:
>     http://www.vimperator.org/muttator
>
>     FWIW, though I greatly appreciate the work you put into manual
>     construction of replies, please consider using automated tools such as
>     Muttator, which would probably greately reduce the amount of work for
>     you _and_ render your repsonse messages more legible.  Alas, I
>     find that
>     the lack of line breaks in your replies and your extremely unclear and
>     eccentric style of quoting to be very difficult to parse at all, Jim.
>
>     I certainly didn't want to create offencce, and so haven't been saying
>     anything about this, but IMO it's a significant deterrent against even
>     trying to parse your replies.
>
>
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