Re: nd6 'stale' timer unreasonably long?

[Timo Buhrmester <timo%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> If you mean me

I only had heard rumors and wasn't calling out anybody in particular.

> I can figure out
> line wrapping just fine.  Just look at my messages: they are
> line-wrapped exactly where I want them to be.

Indeed, where *you* want them to be.  Yet, you're not the one who ends up reading your emails.  You're forcing your preferences upon everybody else here.

This is pretty much analoguous to insisting on sending HTML-Email (your sig notwithstanding), because there you can use your favorite font and color.  *your* favorite font and color.

> You seem to be expecting
> everyone else to scroll right as far as necessary to read your mail.

Sure, nothing says "I figured out line wrapping" more than assuming that 'scrolling right' is the solution, or even a necessary action.

I mean obviously you're just answering in bad faith here, but this makes you look a little... Anyway wrapping lines on a presentation boundary isn't exactly rocket science.

> (If you *want* people to rewrap your text, there's a spec for that; see
> RFC 2646.)

| "Ensure all lines (fixed and flowed) are 79 characters or fewer in length"

LOL, I can see why you'd suggest this.  Guess what's even easier: Wrapping lines as needed.

And again, the sender is one guy, the receivers OTOH are many.  Why should the need of one outweigh the needs of the many?

> And networks public enough to run into a 5k entry limit within 24 hours
> are moderately rare.

Surely here you mean public NetBSD networks, not public networks in general, right?

PS: Sorry for all the scrolling.