In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cevpx says...
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>DeMoN_LaG wrote:
[snip]
>> doesn't limit what a news client is capable of. News clients can make
>> posts in HTML. The fact that most ignorant people do post in HTML is
>> proof that it *can* do it. You just shouldn't when it isn't appropriate:
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>You shouldn't say people are ignorant because they choose a different
>posting format than you.
>
Mr. Lag says people are ignorant if they have a different shoe size than him.
But cut the poor sap some slack, he can't even work the shift key properly.
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>> "
>> Whenever I click <something> in Mozilla it crashes. A screen shot of
>> the crash is at http://some.site/folder/BigScreenShot.jpg"; has just as
>> much information as:
>> "
>> <HTML>
>> <Body background="http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg";>
>> <font color="blue">Whenever I click <font
>> size="+4"><b>something</b><font size="0"> in <i>Mozilla</i> it crashes.
>> Here is a screen shot: <img
>> src="http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg";><font
>> color="Red" size="+5">Help me!</font></body></html>
>> "
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>Don't post that crap in here! WTF is wrong with you?
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And you quoted it in your reply! Now it's hogged FOUR TIMES as much bandwidth
as it would have had it been good ol' 7-bit ASCII text, the way they liked it
back in the ought-seventies!
The way THEY liked it. I'll never forgive those USENET scalawags for givin' up
on good ol' Baudot. Hell, if what you got to say to me don't fit in five bits,
I hain't got th' patience ta listen to ya!
Never shoulda dumped FidoNet if'n ya ask me... lousy no-good whippersnappers....
>> Why waste that much bandwith, server time and server hard drive on such
>> trivial crap? Why make people on slow connections who syncronize
>> newsgroups download a possibly 500kb+ jpeg image that they are paying to
>> download?
>>
>> You also never post any binary files to a non *.binaries.* group. That's
>> a huge post. On some servers, it pushes hundreds and hundreds of posts
>> with content off the server to make room for it.
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>Any news server program worth running can be configured to not allow
>posts with binary files in non-binary newsgroups. They can also be set
>up to not allow HTML posts to newsgroups where they don't belong. All
>this bitching about wasted bandwith because of HTML formatted posts or
>misplaced binaries just wouldn't be if news administrators set up their
>servers properly. Isn't it odd that we blame the users of this system
>instead of the administrators. How did this happen? What is wrong with
>this picture?
There is nothing wrong with this picture, please do not attempt to adjust your
television. This is what is known in the psychiatric field as "The Unix
Mentality", and it affects tens of thousands of Americans each year. The
overriding manifestation of this illness is the irrational, yet entirely
inescapable, belief that "the user is the problem", regardless of who the user
is, what the problem actually is, and regardless of the hardship the belief
causes the patient or his company. Other signs a patient may present with are:
- Little to no ability nor interest in using a mouse, yet above-average typing
ability.
- Pale skin.
- Belief that all information, not just text, should be represented via 7-bit
ASCII encodings, soas to be compatible with obsolete hardware that no longer
exists. This belief can be so profoundly irrational that the patient may even
believe that control-channel information should be coded this way.
- Severe sensitivity to sunlight.
- Strange dyslexia-like propensity to use "$" instead of "s", particularly when
referring to successful corporations that are not affected by the Unix
Mentality.
- Flattened aspect to and constricted blood flow of the gluteal area, sometimes
referred to as "Coder's Ass" in older literature.
- Belief that GUIs are "a fad" or "for 'lusers'". If employment requires that
the patient implement a GUI, implementation will invariably be half-assed,
ameturish, and in severe cases, may even be interpreted from ASCII text.
- Amnesia, in particular the inability to recall any developments in the
industry since the mid-seventies.
- Dry mouth.
This tragic affliction has no known treatment. It is a progressive illness
which eventually leaves its victims incapable of original thought. While not
contagious, it is not unheard of for certain companies to tend to accumulate
them (by vectors not yet fully understood), crippling the company's ability
to... innovate... and driving the company into bankruptcy.
--
JTK
"I am a man of deepest conviction and, mark my words, I shall prevail. Send
armies to intercept me! I welcome the challenge. They may kill me, but I shall
not live and miss The Joker's Wild." - Bennett Vance, The Onion
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![http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg"](http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg"){kind=link}
![http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg"](http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg"){kind=link}