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.... | I guess my point: if my newsreader was displaying garbage and other | people noted that newer newsreaders (I use mozilla thunderbird) had no | issues with those posts, rather than asking and hoping other posters | would change their newsreader or posting style to something my old one | could deal with (which honestly isn't likely to happen anyway), I would | just break down and spend 5 minutes getting a newer one. That would | solve -my- problem without asking others to fix it for me. Oh yeah, I know. It's our burden to install new software that will compensate for the pointless breakage of the stuff our incompetent colleagues use, because there's no other solution. They're exempted from responsibility due to their incompetence, and certainly there's no point in complaining to the authors of the software, since their users don't care. | And if a post has "unreadable junk" in it on another persons old news | reader software, how does that reflect badly on said poster? Well, as you say, you're a photographer and not an IT professional, but as luck would have it you're able to post 7-bit ASCII text like a pro, where Mr. My-Software-Is-RFC-Compliant is not. I guess it's just a matter of perspective. Many photographers are poor spellers, ever notice that? Some years ago, I was once so perplexed by a post on this very newsgroup that I edited the whole thing to normal standards of written English - mostly punctuation, capitals, spelling - and just read it over. Try it sometime, when you get one of those illiterate wads of text that some people produce when they write an email. My experience is that it makes a radical difference, the same words but apparently in the mouths of two very different people. A case could be made that the kind of retarded appearance of the original is only superficial, and it's up to us to mentally polish up the text we read, and understand it as it was meant. But it does make a big difference in how we perceive the author. This is a written medium, and our competence at writing is critical, whether that suits us or not. And it's USENET, where there has in fact been a lot of work devoted to making it a medium where people could communicate in an efficient way with text posts. At this point a lot of the people who couldn't be bothered with all that stuff have moved on, and if there's anywhere you might look for people who have some respect for classic computer technology that still works, this would be a good place to start. Donn |
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