[SpamCop-List] Re: patent-fr

[Ant]

"Philippe Verdy" wrote:

>"Ant" <not at home.today> a écrit:
>> 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.

> I think I'm nice enough. I'm not *requiring* others to quote me, and
> nobody's required to consider my message.

By convention some quoting is needed to give context to a reply, like
I'm doing here.

> I said that I HAD to change the setting because of a severe
> limitation of the newsgroup server that did not allow me to post a
> copy of a spam in the spamcop.spam newsgroup (transaction rejected
> because of line too long).

As stated earlier, you could have posted a tracker. In reply to that,
you said: "the tracker is not a solution, because it does not contain
the message content". In fact it *does* contain a link to the complete
message.

Another alternative is to post the spam as a base64 or UUencoded
attachment. That way, the original content and format is preserved.

> [...] I really disliked that others consider my next message posted
> here, and describing the copy of the spam posted in .spam to be
> abusive.

I wouldn't call it abusive - just a nuisance when parts need to be
cited.

> [...] Unfortunately, the newsgroup standard has never existed

All the more reason to use a simple format which all newsreaders can
handle.

[snip]

> All this discussion is going nowhere. This is out of topic and does
> not even address the issue that I wanted to disucss here. [...]

What you want to discuss is also off-topic here (not that I mind).