Re: Change Date Format Please

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:50:25 +0100

Dr John Stockton wrote:

> Torgeir Bakken (MVP) wrote:
> >Dr John Stockton wrote:
> >> Your article was unreadable, since it appeared to have been posted
> >> without CRLF pairs; please use properly-configured standards-compliant
> >> software and services.
> >
> >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.

Problem is, most of those using Microsoft's Web interface doesn't
know that they are actually posting to Usenet, they think they post
to a Web forum. See here for how Steven's post looks like for Steven:

http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript&mid=040322ae-dc11-4db8-8adc-c4145177f694

> Reliance on Microsoft for standards-
> compliance is ...

I know, I know ;-) 

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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