Re: Creating constants in JavaScript

"Trevor L." wrote:
You indeed are very picky, and further more you are posting
binaary in a non-binary group, being a sin in itself, but
probably done outside your expertise by Outlook.

I wouldn't know about that.
What constitutes "posting binary" ?

This was in the headers of the post he responded to:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

The rest of your posts appear to use:

Content-Type: text/plain;

When you compose a message in Outlook Express, you can choose to format the message in [Plain Text] or [Rich Text (HTML)]. It appears that you posted one message in [Rich Text (HTML)].



What makes this a "non-binary group" ?

There are groups that exist for the sole purpose of posting binary content, and they differ greatly from the ones that are conversational, such as this.

It is generally considered a bad practice to attach a file in a group like this one, since historically many people used to read messages offline, and posts with attachments tend to be large and encumber the download-before-taking-offline process.

At this point, you may be wondering how this applies to you. When you post in HTML, you are actually posting a plain text document with an HTML attachment. Your post is more than twice the size of a plain-text post, since it contains both a plain text version and an HTML version of the same post.

That said, I think Evertjan is being obtuse on this point. You did not attach a file in the more traditional sense, and Evertjan has already shown that he does not know what trn is[1], so I assume his news reader is sophisticated enough to show only one version of your post, though I know nothing about Xnews.

This is an important point, by the way. In the early days of HTML posting, most newsreaders displayed the entire body of every post, so an HTML post would unnecessarily clutter the message space. But well over a decade has passed since discriminating newsreaders were unavailable to the masses.

In a sense, Evertjan is waiting for October 1, 1993:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september



And what diffference does it make ?

If you were attaching whole ASP documents instead of posting code samples, it would interrupt the normal reading flow for most of us (You can certainly appreciate the difference, right?). But that is not what you did.



I thought that this is just a newsgroup that anyone can use
and that the user doesn't have to know anything about Usenet.
Why would the general user know about Usenet, even as to what
it is ? Where would the user be directed to any reference to
it ? Where are users made to read the guidelines or sign a
declaration that they will abide by them ?

These are all good questions and observations. I would assert that there is an implied social contract whenever any of us uses a public space (meatspace or otherwise). When you go to a public park, how do you decide the appropriate way to behave? Where is the contract you sign? The answers are going to be very similar.



[1] See: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general/msg/fb957055bed813ec
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