[probably getting off-topic for linux-man] Hi Joey,
At 2025-05-05T12:00:38-0400, Joey Hess wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I know this concept by the name "bricktext"; a guy named Jim Warner > > has been practicing it in Git commit messages for the procps > > project[A] since at least 2012, but if I remember correctly he was > > doing it in his emails many years before that. I learned of the > > phenomenon from Joey Hess on the Debian mailing lists over 20 years > > ago. Joey, do you recall more details? Was Jim the person you had > > in mind back then? > > The name possibly vaguely rings a bell, but I searched my email > achives and didn't see him back to the mid 90's. > > It seems more likely to me that I was writing, and just happened to > have a paragraph almost perfectly self justify and then played with it > a bit. Or I could have seen it on usenet at some point. Also, > .signature blocks commonly were formatted as bricks back in the day. I found an exhibit of bricktext from 1998. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/10/msg02449.html Regards, Branden
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