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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-19 09:56:12 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> 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.

For those folks with news readers that can't deal with images and no 
path for upgrades, I wonder if there are services around that could 
host images?  Wouldn't it be *amazing* if there were a universal 
resource locator scheme that could allow that?   Donno.  Definitely a 
whole series of impossible problems, though.  Then combining data from 
multiple sources into one display?  Crazy.   Utterly crazy.  Something 
like that'll never exist.


>>> 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. :-)


"NEVER SURRENDER!  NEVER GIVE UPGRADE!"
  ...unofficial moto of the comp.os.vms galaxy.

There's undoubtedly somebody around that's running Usenet through some 
legacy encoding conversion, or some hideous news client.


>> :-)
>> 
>> 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.


I'm not sure "hello world" in Word would fit in less than a megabyte.


> 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.)


Even with all the text and binary content that's vacuumed into the 
Googleplex from what's left of Usenet, seeing Google Groups follow 
Google Reader into oblivion wouldn't be a surprise.



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