Re: Change Date Format Please
From: Dr John Stockton (spam_at_merlyn.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/05/04
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:21:49 +0000
JRS: In article <4047BF83.9832D3B2@hydro.com>, seen in news:microsoft.p
ublic.scripting.vbscript, Torgeir Bakken (MVP) <Torgeir.Bakken-
spam@hydro.com> posted at Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:45:07 :-
>Dr John Stockton wrote:
>
>> JRS: In article <040322AE-DC11-4DB8-8ADC-C4145177F694@microsoft.com>,
>> seen in news:microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript, =?Utf-
>> 8?B?U3RlcGhlbiBDYWlybnM=?= <S.Cairns@belfasttelegraph.co.uk> posted at
>> Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:56:07 :-
>> [snip]
>>
>> Your article was unreadable, since it appeared to have been posted
>> without CRLF pairs; please use properly-configured standards-compliant
>> software and services.
>
>Hi
>
>You need to take that up with Microsoft, Steven posted through the
>Web interface Microsoft provides to the newsgroups, from the header
>of Steven's post:
No I don't. Steven is the MS user, not me. His articles are being
transmitted in an improper condition, he (like others) is suffering a
loss of possible responses.
Standards call for news articles to be transmitted with a CRLF pair at
the end of every line; and for those lines, where text, to be no more
than about 72 characters long. Otherwise, the articles may not be
universally readable.
Those who choose to post to newsgroups distributed by the Usenet
mechanism have a duty, to themselves and to others, to choose a
standards-compliant interface. Reliance on Microsoft for standards-
compliance is ...
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