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From: Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
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Subject: Re: Unwanted update to 150 just happened
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 21:15:39 +0200
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The Real Bev wrote:
> On 5/1/26 12:57, Nobody wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 May 2026 20:16:24 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw
>> <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>Frank Miller wrote:
>>>> The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>> On 5/1/26 01:09, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:36:56 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The windows endings damaged the file such that it no longer served
>>>>>>> the purpose. Fixing it worked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In case it’s relevant, I keep seeing those “^M” sequences in postings
>>>>>> from you when I paste the text into Emacs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just find that odd, for a Linux user ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Blame Thunderbird.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes. Just blame Thunderbird, blame Firefox, blame Mozilla as a whole.
>>>> Or better blame Microsoft or Linux, blame the developers of software.
>>>> But never take responsibility for all that weird mix up of an operating
>>>> system you created but don't understand yourself.
> 
> I didn't write TB.  I'm not a programmer.
> 
> And speaking of blaming Thunderbird:  Ever since I upgraded to 139 
> simetimes when I hit backspace within a quote TB adds additional CRs 
> above my new text further down.  Nuisance and makes no sense at all. 

So don't upgrade it. I'm using version 38.7.2 since years now without
any problems.