1. suggestions ?
Wouldn't it be nice...
..if Robert gave us all some "suggestions" about how we should all use his
FREELY provided listserve.
At the present time we are all PLAGUED with persistent oversized reply-to's
which do nothing but waste our time, MIME formatted text most of us can't
read ( who really needs color etcetera ), and executables which aren't really
necessary, and do nothing more than clutter up our mailboxes. ( I assume most
of us "HAVE" EU, so why waste the bandwidth ? )
The "preference" of uuencoded OR base64 zips etc. might also be suggested.
...wouldn't it be nice...Robert ?
Not to "cramp" our style...but how about some "respectful" standards we would
all appreciate.
Besides, think of all the extra time we'd have to PROGRAM !
grumpyWolf
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..with a little web-page at http://www.king.igs.net/~wolfritz
2. Re: suggestions ?
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Oct 11, 1998
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Last edited Oct 12, 1998
Wolfgang Fritz writes:
> Wouldn't it be nice...
> ..if Robert gave us all some "suggestions" about how we should all use
> his FREELY provided listserve.
I can give a few common sense observations.
#1
This mailing list is not under my direct control.
It was set up by John Kinne of Miami University a couple of years
ago when he was developing a program in Euphoria for use in
the University. We are using the resources of Miami University.
If we abuse those resources or cause embarassment to the
University, they will cancel this list. We'd have to
start using the newsgroup, or make some other arrangement.
#2
Try to stay on the topic of Euphoria programming or
closely related matters.
#3
After the events of last week, it should be obvious that
a .EXE file in this mailing list is now about as popular
as a porcupine in a nudist colony. I trust Monty, but how do
I know it was really Monty who posted, and how do I know where
Monty got the .EXE? At least it was a small file.
#4
Large attachments of any kind should not be posted.
Why force hundreds of people to download a big file,
when only 10% at best are going to be interested?
If it's that great, send it to me and I'll post it on the
main Euphoria site. What's large? I guess 10K or less
is small. A bound Euphoria program is definitely too large.
Some free e-mail accounts are limited to about 60K.
#5
I can't comment on the format for attachments: MIME,
UUENCODE etc. since I seem to be able to receive
them all. The safest thing is to put small chunks of
Euphoria code into the body of the message. Some
people unfortunately end up with "=3D" in place
of "=" all through their code. 3D being the hex code for "=".
You can write a simple Euphoria program to correct this:
(I sure hope *this* doesn't get clobberred with =3D's !)
-- change =3D back to =
-- and rejoin lines split with =
-- usage: ex eq3d.ex < source > dest
object line
integer pos
while 1 do
line = gets(0)
if atom(line) then
exit
end if
-- fix '=' that is used to split a long line:
while 1 do
pos = match("=\n", line)
if pos = 0 then
exit
end if
line = line[1..pos-1] & gets(0)
end while
-- fix '=3D' that appears where there should be a '='
while 1 do
pos = match("=3D", line)
if pos = 0 then
exit
end if
line = line[1..pos] & line[pos+3..length(line)]
end while
puts(1, line)
end while
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
