[Info-vax] OpenVMS Modernization Development Tools on YouTube (eCube)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-18, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-09-18 14:37:58 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:
>
>> Why not post binaries, or images, or whatever?
>
> Good idea.   That'd be sensible and quite handy for some questions; 
> where an image or a diagram would greatly clarify some detail or 
> command sequence.
>

There are longstanding Usenet rules in this area and binaries are
dumped by many public NNTP providers for what should be obvious
reasons.

>> One MIGHT be able to make a case for encoding something which goes  
>> beyond 7-bit printable ASCII, but why one would encode plain text is  
>> beyond me.
>
> SHOULD WE SWITCH TO UPPERCASE POSTINGS TO KEEP MESSAGES READABLE IN 
> OLDER CHARACTER ENCODINGS QUESTION MARK
>

This problem went away when the TTY43 was invented, so I think we
are safe here. :-)

>:-)
>
> More seriously: the world isn't going back to the land of 7-bit ASCII text.
>

There's a difference between the coding of rich text and dumping
over 900 lines of MS Word formatted junk into a message.

BTW, I noticed the Google Groups mobile client displays the first
line of the HTML (as text) before showing a "..." which I can't
click on. (I don't know if that's normal for that client.)

Simon.

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