From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6faab3246196bedc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code Date: 1999/11/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 551963247 References: <814jiq$d8l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2x8_3.271$aj3.34645@news.wenet.net> <81bq0t$4ui$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <81csuk$vku$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 943341932 208.178.101.2 (Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:25:32 PST) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:25:32 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <81csuk$vku$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: >> In article <2x8_3.271$aj3.34645@news.wenet.net>, >> xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) wrote: >> > [Yeah, I know all this HTML crud is silly in a posting, and >_way_ >> > ugly, but it does, in some newsreaders, make the above links >"live", >There is no need to EVER send HTML to newsgroups like this. I >personally immediately delete any posting including HTML without >reading it. Ah, yes, the old "invincible ignorance" ploy. The article might contain the cure for cancer, the HTML might demonstrate a Turing complete gnat compiler constructed entirely out of SGML tags, but if it offends the eye, out with it, blaming the messenger without first reading the message. Where do they _teach_ this attitude, Robert? I want to make sure none of my children accidentally enroll in whatever place that is. In contrast, I tend to sit here, dull as dirt, patient as paint, and edit out, by hand, all the quoted-printable damage, html tags, MIME dividers, and other readability reducers offensively applied to innocent plain text, on the off chance that someone intelligent might have posted something useful to me, even without also having having invested the time to gain a perfect grasp of Usenet technology before learning whatever useful information they had to convey. Even in this very newsgroup, careful mining in this fashion will uncover the occasional nugget of great worth, and meanwhile I teach myself new, more widely useful, editor scripting techniques. Call it the humility driven approach. It may be the only place in my entire life where I bother to demonstrate any, but there it is, like an oozing unbandaged wound, naked for the world to admire or detest. ===== random quote by or about this author ===== "Re: In defense of drug testing": I just wanted to thank your for the posting. I plan to show it to my children. I hope others do the same. -- Eric Rosenfeld. -- Kent Paul Dolan.