From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 14:45:38 CST
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
> Let's just put a requirement up at the top of this thing that says that
> Gnus is the only recognized newsreading program. THEN we can say things
> like "the method that works", because we will only be talking about
> Gnus, not trn, Netscape, vi, nor my poor old VT220, none of which handle
> this backspace nonsense.
trn does. Honest.
I think we should say that *some* newsreaders support this and for that
reason backspaces aren't unheard of in article bodies and just leave it
at that.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>