POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : #read fiasco : Re: BLESS YOU! Server Time
11 Aug 2024 15:21:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: BLESS YOU!  
From: David Wilkinson
Date: 9 Aug 1999 17:47:26
Message: <37af4adc.2344328@news.povray.org>
On 9 Aug 1999 11:28:19 -0400, par### [at] fwicom (Ron Parker) wrote:

>On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 11:03:52 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
>>> --
>>> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
>>> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/
>>
>>	Please don't post that! Or are requests one way? 
>
>
>The difference: Warp's signature is 2 lines.  Way below the McQuary Limit.
>Yours is six lines, which is already in excess of the limit, plus a mostly-
>useless MIME attachment that eats up another 22 lines and incidentally adds
>an extra step to reading your postings with text-mode newsreaders such as
>slrn (which I use) that want to do the right thing with MIME-formatted 
>postings.  Just because some idiot at Nutscrape doesn't understand USENET 
>culture doesn't mean you have to meekly follow along.

Ys, the vcf card is something of an annoyance.  I have Agent set up to save
attachments
and every now and again I have to delete all those dratted vcf cards.  There is a
temptation to filter out the offending users, but I have resisted this because this
would
mean missing some of Matt's more interesting postings :-)
David
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