[SpamCop-List] Re: patent-fr

[Ant]

"Philippe Verdy" wrote:

> Plonk me if you wish, but I won't change back this, due to antiquity
> mail/news readers.

It's not really about old newsreaders, but more to do with the
accepted behaviour in newsgroups. You are effectively saying you won't
play nicely with other members of this group. What happens when you
need to cite someone else who is using quoted-printable? I think you
will find your OE6 won't handle it properly.

> Those that persist in using them are supporting
> the immobility that caused newgroups to not evolve

Utter nonsense. New message formats are are not required for groups
to evolve. Newsgroups are primarily for discussion, and nothing more
than plain-text is required. A line-length limit has no impact.

> andbecome now unusable (and died for almost all users).

The only thing that makes groups unusable is Hipcrime-style floods.
The rest is solvable with a killfile.

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> That lack of standardization really something that I cannot
> understand and I really can't understand the resistance of users to
> not adopt newer better standards and live only with legacy
> intiquities [...]

So why are you using OE? It still doesn't understand multipart/signed
messages from those posters who like to use it for PGP signatures.