[rescue] what can you do with an Apple Quadro 840AV

[Carl R. Friend]

On 03/27/2018 05:33 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:

> Based on things youbve said in the past, this is entirely by your own
> obstinance, itbs not because youbre actually incapable of using a modern
> MUA on a modern system to interact with the rest of the world.

    Of note is that this is a crowd that tends to deal in the world of
"retro-computing" which rather strongly implies ASCII (likely '67,
but for the truly hard-core might be '63; even harder-core ones might
be using SIXBIT, or, for the heavy-metal types, EBCDIC).  Some of us
actually use machines that are more than a few months old (sometimes
by years or decades older).

    I mentally filter out the errant "b" characters knowing that they
are an artefact of a clueless implementation of something that "tried"
(not hard enough) to be backwards-compatible.  Sometimes this can
yield humorous results, e.g. "o'stinance" from the first sentence in
the quote above (which got auto re-corrected following the auto-correct
for the botched character).

> Again, the use of an archaic or broken version of mailman to run the
> mailing list is a choice.

    See "retro-computing" above.  Yes, it may well be by choice.  But
why should I have to change my environment to flatter the Apple fanboys
with their iPhones?

    Cheers.

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