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Re: C.Dewick has a dummy spit! (was: do NOT, EVER, post messages containing HTML (was: "City Rail Security Guards"))
That is one who took the bait - ho many more bites can I get?
DaveP
Rob Kearey wrote in message <37A0F48E.9595946E@mailbox.uq.edu.au>...
>WhaleOilBeefHooked wrote:
>
>> C. Dewick wrote in message <7nqg9a$1tv$1@lios.apana.org.au>...
>
>> >And the second half of it was a repeat of the first half, but in damn
HTML!
>> >grrrr.. It's about time I reminded everyone about *NOT* posting messages
>> >with HTML content in newsgroups...
>
>> And who appointed you guardian of this newsgroup?
>
>Oh dear. This old chestnut again. Feeling defensive today?
>
>The enlightened anarchy that is usenet is stressed when self-regulation
>does not occur. Someone's gotta do it somethime.
>
>> >Most of us don't look kindly on people who post messages to this
newsgroup
>> >when the whole message is *repeated at the end* in bloody HTML! Do NOT
EVER
>> >post news articles containing copies of the text in HTML please.
>
>> Gonna make us?
>
>How badly do you want to be killfiled?
>
>> >It makes messages twice as large, harder to read, and very annoying to
the
>> >majority of people who read news using text-based newsreaders. HTML
makes
>> >normal text impossible to read...
>
>> So they should update. This is 1999 after all, and there are plenty of
>> newsreaders, available for free, which can read HTML. Why should some
>> posters be restricted from using the full capabilities available to them
>> purely and simply because some people prefer programs which are less
>> capable.
>
>Absolute bollocks, David. What about the needs of the handicapped? What
>about people restricted to Lynx? What about conservation of backbone
>capacity? What about lessening the load on nntp servers?
>
>There are very good reasons why plain text is the preferred medium for
>usenet interaction by all reasonable people, and you know it. The high
>dudgeon you're expressing here just makes you look like a teenager
>sprung smoking in the school toilets again. You can do better.
>
>> >If you want to post to newsgroups, which are a *text-based* medium, do
>> *NOT*
>
>> It is only a "test-based medium" because Usenet evolved at a time when
that
>> was the norm. At the time, the whole of the internet was text-based. The
web
>> evolved into a graphical medium, there is no reason why Usenet cannot
evolve
>> into one as well (well, there is a reason, the pigheadedness of some of
its
>> users).
>
>Free Clue: Usenet is not the WWW.
>
>Please read the above line untill your neural net is sufficiently
>programmed.
>
>> >post messages containing copies of the actual text appended at the end
in
>> >HTML. Most of us will ignore any HTML content.
>
>> So ignore it, and stop subjecting us to your tirades.
>
>Stop subjecting us to your apparent lack of care and attention to detail
>with regards to your news postings, or be ignored.
>
>> >Related to this, either configure your software properly so it doesn't
>> >include HTML in news articles, or get different software which works
>> >properly and doesn't irritate us with stuff we can't read outside of a
>> >web-browser's news reading window.
>
>> Why not get a newsreader that can handle HTML?
>
>Why not read the relevant RFC and become enclued? It's no skin off your
>nose, after all.
>
>http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/rfc/rfc1855.txt
>
>> DaveP
>
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