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Nathan

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:34:57 PM12/13/09

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Please excuse this series of tests. We are attempting an upgrade.

Nathan

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:43:42 PM12/13/09

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On Dec 13, 7:34 pm, Nathan <nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com>
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> Please excuse this series of tests. We are attempting an upgrade.

If A = B = C

Nathan Baker

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:48:26 PM12/13/09

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testing from Outlook....

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Nathan

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:49:02 PM12/13/09

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On Dec 13, 7:43 pm, Nathan <nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com>
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Reply test...

Jim Carlock

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Dec 13, 2009, 8:26:55 PM12/13/09

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A=B=C = D

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More Than Five Senses
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: On Dec 13, 7:43 pm, Nathan wrote:

Jim Carlock

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Dec 13, 2009, 8:38:13 PM12/13/09

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Plain text attachment test...

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: A=B=C = D

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updates.txt

Jim Carlock

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Dec 13, 2009, 9:06:28 PM12/13/09

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Plain-text attachments go through. Now for the next test:

Binary attachment test...

Binary file included named updates.zip.

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More Than Five Senses
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updates.zip

pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk

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Dec 14, 2009, 4:11:19 AM12/14/09

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In article <4b258b7d$0$4975$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com>
nathan...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com "Nathan" writes:

Looking promising.
Pete
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Alexei A. Frounze

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Dec 14, 2009, 7:09:51 AM12/14/09

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On Dec 14, 1:11 am, p...@nospam.demon.co.uk wrote:
> In article <4b258b7d$0$4975$9a6e1...@unlimited.newshosting.com>

> nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com "Nathan" writes:
>
> > On Dec 13, 7:43 pm, Nathan <nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Dec 13, 7:34 pm, Nathan <nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Please excuse this series of tests. We are attempting an upgrade.
>
> > > If A = B = C
>
> > Reply test...
>
> Looking promising.
> Pete
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> "We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
> we have borrowed it from our descendants."

Are you going to support attachments? I mean, binary attachments?

Alex

Nathan Baker

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Dec 14, 2009, 10:33:07 AM12/14/09

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> Looking promising.
> Pete

Yes it is. Thanks for all your help!

Nathan.

Nathan Baker

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Dec 14, 2009, 10:33:41 AM12/14/09

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"Alexei A. Frounze" <alexf...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com> wrote in message
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> Are you going to support attachments? I mean, binary attachments?

Well, it does seem to be able to handle them to some degree. First, the
news-server that you use must allow them. The one I use doesn't. The one
Jim uses does. Jim was able to send an attached text file and also an
attached, zipped text file. But his attempt to send a small picture failed.

There is no desire to support attachments... we simply were curious to see
what would happen.

Nathan.

pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk

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Dec 14, 2009, 4:13:44 PM12/14/09

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In article <4b265ad5$0$5081$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com>
nathan...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com "Nathan Baker" writes:

> "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexf...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com> wrote in message
> news:4b262b0f$0$5115$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com...
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> > Are you going to support attachments? I mean, binary attachments?

[..]

> There is no desire to support attachments... we simply were curious to see
> what would happen.
>
> Nathan.

c.l.a.x86 is a text-only newsgroup and IMO that is how it should
remain. There are more efficient ways of posting binary content
(for example including a URL to same in an article). Those
readers who _really want_ the binary can fetch it, leaving those
who do not to read the text. IMO "attachments" are for email and
have no place on usenet, especially in text only newsgroups.

Just my twopennyworth,

Alexei A. Frounze

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Dec 15, 2009, 1:10:52 AM12/15/09

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On Dec 14, 1:13 pm, p...@nospam.demon.co.uk wrote:
> In article <4b265ad5$0$5081$9a6e1...@unlimited.newshosting.com>
> nathancba...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com "Nathan Baker" writes:
>
>
>
> > "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrun...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com> wrote in message

> >news:4b262b0f$0$5115$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com...
>
> > > Are you going to support attachments? I mean, binary attachments?
> [..]
> > There is no desire to support attachments... we simply were curious to see
> > what would happen.
>
> > Nathan.
>
> c.l.a.x86 is a text-only newsgroup and IMO that is how it should
> remain. There are more efficient ways of posting binary content
> (for example including a URL to same in an article). Those
> readers who _really want_ the binary can fetch it, leaving those
> who do not to read the text. IMO "attachments" are for email and
> have no place on usenet, especially in text only newsgroups.

I asked 'cause I'd never seen binary attachments in the group before.
If somebody really-really wants to include some binary data in a news/
e-mail message,
it can be converted to printable characters at the expense of size
increase.
All these UUENCODE, MIME, BASE64 things do it.

Alex

Nathan Baker

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Dec 15, 2009, 9:09:36 AM12/15/09

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>
> c.l.a.x86 is a text-only newsgroup and IMO that is how it should
> remain.

I have thought of a possible use for attachments: Pedagogical Reference
Storage

Google archives all newsgroup posts. One can store a document as an
attachment and then fill the body of the post with lots of keywords and lots
of questions (that the document answers) so that the post can easily be
located via a Google search.

Nathan.

ArarghMai...@not.at.arargh.com

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Dec 15, 2009, 12:41:15 PM12/15/09

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On 15 Dec 2009 14:09:36 GMT, "Nathan Baker"
<nathan...@MUNGED.microcosmotalk.com> wrote:

>
>>
>> c.l.a.x86 is a text-only newsgroup and IMO that is how it should
>> remain.
>
>I have thought of a possible use for attachments: Pedagogical Reference
>Storage
>
>Google archives all newsgroup posts. One can store a document as an

Not binaries, AFAIK.
And I haven't seen any archived attachments, but I haven't looked in a
while.

>attachment and then fill the body of the post with lots of keywords and lots
>of questions (that the document answers) so that the post can easily be
>located via a Google search.
>
>Nathan.
>

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James Harris

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Dec 15, 2009, 6:19:19 PM12/15/09

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On 15 Dec, 14:09, "Nathan Baker"

I sometimes use Google's archive for that purpose. But I don't add
attachments and my posts are always intended to be readable as they
stand. It might be an annoyance to others to do as you suggest and
there's no guarantee that Google will continue to archive attachments
whether they do at the moment or not.

James

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Dec 15, 2009, 6:43:14 PM12/15/09

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On 15 Dec 2009 23:19:19 GMT, James Harris
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I don think that there is any guarantee that Google will continue to
archive much of anything, let alone attachments.

Besides, there is always the problem of FINDing anything. I pretty
much gave up on google searching news groups some time back.