I don't know if you've been following the battle bwteen Herfried and
myself over quoting styles.
no...what do you suggest?
I've got to say your post was just sooo difficult to read. - Word-wrapped
quoted lines such that some have > and some don't. No indentation to aid
separation of quoted and unquoted. Monolithic paragraphs with no capitals.
Unfamiliar (to me) words like w/, b/c which save you typing three or four
letters but mean that I need to reread the sentence until I've worked it
out!
sorry...what settings will make this better? also, moving from the
vb6.gen.discussion group, i'm used to people speaking/writing only english.
the w/ is with, the b/c is because, s/b is should be, w/b would be...but i
digress. i am overwhelmed at the number of non-native english
speakers/writers in this group! that's fantastic and i applaude you all. it
also shows how progressive you are in tackling the "new" while most of my
compatriots are still tied to the "old". the lack of capitalization is from
years of working w/ unix...that'll be a hard habit to break. i will do my
best to ammend these quirks of mine so that i am more in tune w/ the current
audience.
Right. Moan over. Hot air to be dismissed - I'm not starting this one up
again, I just needed to say it. ;-)
[But I reserve the right to use this as an example at some unspecified point
in the future, lol].
lol. i won't be suprised when i get see it again.
I'd hate to have a long and serious argument with
you - I'd be working very hard to understand you and finding myself agreeing a
lot. ;-) [But then, our disputes would not tend to be long drawn out affairs,
methinks]
like i said, i'll try to be more clear in the future. and, my intent here is
to offer advice that helps someone...not to argue at all. i've read a lot of
your posts and have participated w/...errr...with you on some. you're a
peach of a guy! cor is too. i do see squabbles from time to time but i don't
plan to engage in any, present or future. if we disagree, then we disagree.
no big deal. arguments, as you've said, are counter-productive, going
nowhere.
However, I'd like to see a Microsoft et. al. solution to these attacks. I
found it surprising, disappointing and still inexplicable <why> these things
had the impact that they did. I don't understand what difficulty there was in
preventing these 156Kers from appearing in the newsgroups. But never mind.
ok! stop making me laugh! ms is notorious for "security through obscurity"
and there's no obfuscation that can be applied to the nntp rfc that meets
that end...it's too simple. the only thing they could do would be to strip
content out of messages or block multi-part content...that takes money they
just won't spend.
As a helper I'd like the attack issue solved without a blanket ban, and
the ability to grab a zip from the message that I'm actually reading rather
than playing the Mailbox Shuffle. I'd like it even better, lol, if I could
click an attachment and have it unzip into \Tmp and open up VS for me, but I
musn't be greedy. [Hmm, perhaps a web site for uploading to, which creates a
page with a link utilising a special Url Protocol to do all that I
want...]
dreamer! ;^)
I agree - yet I want more.;-))
i think that sentence sums up everyone's feelings!
catch you later,
steve
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