In news.software.readers on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:18:17 -0500, »Q«
<boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:01:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Peter J Ross <pjr@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>> In news.software.readers on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:06:18 +0000 (UTC),
>> Yours Truly,Johnny Dollar <ytjohnnyd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Indeed I am, sir, at least some of the time.
>>
>> And Xnews, sir, is a prehistoric,
>
> Nope.
I could write "1990s" or, more to the point, "pre-MIME", if you
preferred.
>> eccentric,
>
> I agree, but I suspect you meant to imply that that's a bad thing.
Yes. Put your eccerntricity in your posts, not in the software you use
to (brokenly) post them.
>> buggy,
>
> And yet its benefits outweigh the hassle of having to work around a
> few bugs.
What benefits?
>> annoying newsreader
>
> Annoying you is a feature of the software, not a bug. ;)
It annoys everybody who isn't willing to limit Usenet discussion to
US-ASCII and a lot of "?"s.
>> that doesn't even understand MIME.
>
> The horror.
Yes. It's 2012 and some people are still using a newsreader that
doesn't understand MIME. A newsreader that makes Windows Live Mail and
Thunderbird look RFC-compliant. A newsreader that was once acceptable,
but is now just a nuisance that has to be worked around.
<http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.25>
That's the slrn workaround. It fixes a lot of broken Xnews posts, but
not all of them.
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