the strange accident

[yatuo-kui]

the strange accident

http://www.hotalways.com/groups/viewthread.php?tid=12&extra=page=1

 

[Keith Thompson]

the strange accident

http://[deleted]

What did this do to the C language?

Nothing whatsoever, of course.

Chuck, please resist the temptation to respond to spam. If you must
respond, at least don't re-post the URL.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Keith Thompson said:

By convention, signatures are not subject to topicality rules.

They are, however, subject to Usenet conventions.

Chuck's signature is a bit long,

Yes. That's the point. It's too long, and he knows it perfectly well,
and he does nothing about it.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Keith Thompson said:


They are, however, subject to Usenet conventions.


Yes. That's the point. It's too long, and he knows it perfectly well,
and he does nothing about it.

I think you're right. I misread Frustrated Lurker's comments and
thought he was complaining about the content; on re-reading, I think
he was merely complaining about the length.

Chuck, if your Usenet provider automatically adds those extra lines,
there's not much you can do about that, but you might consider
shortening the portion of your signature that you do control. You
could replace the 4 URLs with a single one pointing to a web page on
your own site; with a properly chosen file name, you could even get
your message across to people who don't bother to follow the link.

 

[Walter Roberson]

Chuck, if your Usenet provider automatically adds those extra lines,
there's not much you can do about that, but you might consider
shortening the portion of your signature that you do control. You
could replace the 4 URLs with a single one pointing to a web page on
your own site; with a properly chosen file name, you could even get
your message across to people who don't bother to follow the link.

Or Chuck could use a few words of header and pack several tinyurl's
on a single line.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Keith Thompson wrote: [...]

Chuck's signature is a bit long, but it doesn't exceed my personal
threshold of annoyance. However, Chuck, you might consider dropping
the two blank lines that precede the teranews sig.

When it leaves here there are zero terminal blank lines. Teranews
added those.

Then might I suggest that you complain to teranews?

 

[Robbie Hatley]

the strange accident
http://www.hotalways.com/groups/viewthread.php?tid=12&extra=page=1

Ok, I'll be charitable and assume that this is something on-topic for
this group (ie, it has something to do with the C programming language).
However, when I go there, I get this error message:

"Your usergroup does not have permission to access attachments"

Please don't post links to material elsewhere, especially not to sites
that require accounts. No one can read your material. Instead, please
just write what you want to write in the body of your post. Thanks!

 

[Richard Bos]

have you considered switching to a decent news reader? For instance
Google Groups dosn't add any extra lines.

True, but irrelevant, since Google Groups is not a decent newsreader. It
isn't even a decent news _server_, which is what Chuck very badly needs
to find.

Richard

 

[Keith Thompson]

Keith Thompson wrote: [...]

Chuck's signature is a bit long, but it doesn't exceed my personal
threshold of annoyance. However, Chuck, you might consider dropping
the two blank lines that precede the teranews sig.

When it leaves here there are zero terminal blank lines. Teranews
added those.

have you considered switching to a decent news reader? For instance
Google Groups dosn't add any extra lines.

It's not the reader, it's the server. (Google Groups acts (poorly) as
both.)

 

[Flash Gordon]

CBFalconer wrote, On 11/06/07 23:05:

No. I handle news offline, and want my existing newsreader. My
ISP has fouled up the news access, thus the Teranews. I hate the
google service, and it is not offlineable.

There are other free and almost free news providers. You can even do
what I do and use SW to amalgamate feed from several such providers. Or
if you ask nicely I can even give you read/posting access through my
system, all I would need is an email address to send a username/password
to. This offer (including running on non-standard port to bypass some
blocking) is available to anyone I am familiar enough with to trust.