[FFML] Looking for a fic

[The Wanderer]

On 2018-11-10 at 22:00, Alexander CHEEZEM wrote:

> ... well, now. This is interesting.
> 
> I've posted a few times on how FFML messages are coming through to me
> mangled. That hasn't stopped, exactly, but this particular message
> was only *partially* mangled. Specifically, while The Wanderer's and
> Bob's messages came through as blocks of text, the attached fic and
> text by Yonge came through fully intact. I've posted a screenshot of
> what the mess looks like at https :
> //i.postimg.cc/jj9SzYHG/FFML-Screenshot-2.jpg (just remove the
> spaces).

I doubt that's needed, given the mangled way that portion of the quote
came through to me; see below.

In particular, it came through with all newlines after the Subject line
and before the attachment deleted.

I suspect that if there had been any strings of consecutive non-newline
whitespace, they might well have been elided to one whitespace item apiece.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm>
> To: ffml <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
> Sent: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 7:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [FFML] Looking for a fic
> 
> On 2018-11-10 at 18:37, Bob Schroeck wrote:> While I'm trying to catch up on all the new traffic in the last few> weeks, I have (another!) query to pose to the list.> > I'm trying to find a story that I used to have a copy of, but lost> in the death of a thumbdrive some years back.  Hopefully someone here> recognizes it and can send me a copy or point me at where it's to be> found:> > Sailor Moon fic, written shortly after 9/11.  It *might* be a John> Biles fic, but don't hold me to that.  Usagi was at the WTC on 9/11> and was killed.  The remaining Senshi track down Osama bin Laden and> give him a "the reason you suck" lecture, but he gets away from the> international troops following in their wake and dies an ignoble> death in a traffic accident some years later.  The end of the fic is> the Archangel Michael imploring Usagi to leave Hell  because she> doesn't belong there, but she insists on staying there to read holy> texts to the hijackers to help alleviate their torment. The ti
tle was> something like "Who Will Read The Sutras", which references a koan-> like passage included in the story, where a Master tells a Student he> will be in Hell after he dies, because someone has to be there to> read the sutras to the Student.> > You would think that remembering that much I should be able to> rewrite it from memory, but no dice.  <grin>Allyn Yonge, apparently. Here you go.(I have a near-totally-comprehensive archive of everything that's comethrough the FFML in a long, long time. I'm more than willing to share itas needed, although not all of it is in a format that's suitable fordoing so at the drop of a hat.)--    The WandererThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore allprogress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw-------------- next part --------------Subject: [FFML] [fanfic][SM] Who will read the sutras?
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:15:20 -0400
> From: Allyn Yonge <ayonge at yahoo.com>
> To: ffml at anifics.com

<snip>

The difference is almost certainly the fact that the fic was an
*attachment*, not in the body of the message, and so whatever part of
your mail stack is reducing all whitespace didn't have a chance to get
at its newlines; the attachment was just reproduced inline verbatim.

Personally, I'm inclined to blame the fact that (judging from message
headers) you seem to be using A: Webmail, and B: more specifically, AOL
Webmail. Webmail tends to be biased towards HTML E-mail to begin with,
and I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if AOL were doing
stupid and squirrelly things with non-HTML E-mail nowadays.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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