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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:24 -0500
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Subject: Re: Question about the individual posting the long file names
From: "Tatjana" <Tatjana@DontFall.InLove.WithA.dreamer.org>
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:31:27 GMT
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On 28-Apr-2009, Esteban <Esteban@aol.com> wrote:
> Curiousity drives me to inquire why the individual who is posting the crap
>
> files with extremely large file names, some as great as 8,175 characters.
> I
> understand the reasons behind spamming for monitarty gain, or posting
> virus
> files, but this guy puzzles me. You cannot download such a file even if
> you
> wanted to because of the 256 character file name limitation of the file
> system. so why is he posting them?
Esteban, I believe there is some problem at your side.
Is your windows localized to a Latin language?
Somehow, it seems your Xnews is failing to detect the filenames.
It shouldn't happen with UTF applications, but I don't use Xnews, don't know
it.
My question about localized Windows has a reason, some localizations use ;
as separation of values instead of , what confuses even Excel.
Finally: the 256 chars long filenames is not a Usenet limitation. And not
everybody uses the same operating system you do.
Tatjana
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