Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1401822735 8104 166.84.1.5 (3 Jun 2014 19:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22196 comp.sys.mac.system:60039 Darrin "Doc" O'Leary wrote, quoting me: > > Unicode handling is the biggest problem in newsreaders today. > The secondary issue is passing things around to other systems > that *don't* have good Unicode support. All one can do is declare the content-type (hint: you still are not doing that in your own messages, even though you're using a non-ASCII charset) and let things fall where they may. > > Next is insufficient (static) buffer space, along with handling > > excessively long subjects. And references. > Well, I don't think I have any of those problems, but I'm sure you'll > let me know if I do. :-) You can count on it. Heh. For the moment, though, in addition to the above, you need to drop this - | Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system ^ | The space will cause some servers to silently toss your messages. And probably will for many years to come... I also don't buy the argument that it supports continuation lines, because no one should ever be posting the same thing to that many groups (more than can be contained on one 1022 byte line). Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number