Re: OT: Various issues around world politics

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:49:05 GMT, throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop)
wrote:

:: What are you using that causes the absolutely messed up and totally
:: non-standard way of quoting that accompanies all your posts?

: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx>
: I assume it's named in the article header text,

So far as I know, it isn't.
I put pretty close to the minimum possible header fields in,
and User-Agent is not a required field so far as I know.
I use that quoting convention because I happen to like it,
and have used it for some decades now without all that many
protests. Most folks merely protest that I only quote the
immediate text I'm responding to, trusting that they can go
up the thread to find the originals if they care.

Just about every other poster on Usenet uses one less quoting marker for
the poster than the text they wrote. You, OTOH, use the same number for
both - making it look to people used to the way 99 and 44/100th percent
of users do things that someone else said the text you quote.

I use fields for From, Newsgroups, Subject, Organization, Message-ID,
Date, and References. Of those, I think I could drop Organization.
The nntp server adds a few other fields, but of course User-Agent
isn't one of them, since it doesn't know what agent I'm using, because
I don't tell them. Don't ask, don't tell. That is, they don't ask,
and I don't tell.

You want to see the actual code that opens the nntp connection and
sends the message? Well... OK, here 'tis:

( case "$user" in
"") ;;
*) echo authinfo user $user
echo authinfo pass $pass
;;
esac
echo post
cat
echo .
echo quit
) | nc $host $port

So basically, y'see, my User-Agent is... netcat. Sort of.
I have also used telnet. You can see why I don't tell.

Or put another way, readnews and rn are older clients than mine,
but not by much, and I don't think much else is.

Why yes, I *do* use a lot of duct tape and bailing wire
in my daily life, why do you ask?
--
"...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess.
They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a
characteristic of them."
- Margaret Thatcher
.

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