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No tabs in post PLEASE!!! (was Re: partial list sort)

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Thu Oct 10 12:06:45 EDT 2002 
In article <a-A4B8BD.11502910102002 at nnrp05.earthlink.net>, Daniel T. wrote:
> grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> 
>> In article <a-9899BB.10453710102002 at nnrp05.earthlink.net>, Daniel T. wrote:
>> 
>> > While we are at it, let's bitch and moan because some people put LF/CR 
>> > at the end of each line, some only put LF and some only put CR.
>> 
>> AFAIK, all the relevent RFCs (e.g. RFC 977 Network News
>> Transfer Protocol) specify that all article lines must end in
>> CR/LF. If somebody isn't following the standard, they deserve
>> to get bitched at.
> 
> AFAIK, tabs are part of the standard.

I didn't say anything about tabs.  Though, IMO, anybody who
wants to make sure his text looks "right" will avoid tabs.

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