Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:17:40 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:38:02 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:50:50 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
[...]
If you don't stop moaning about standards I'm going to post in html.

If you do it *properly*, it's no problem. But given your track record,
the chance of that is nil.

Html is not allowed in newsgroups, I thought you knew that?

Exactly *which* part of "*properly*" didn't you understand!?

How can something that's not allowed be done properly? It's ok
officer, I was speeding properly.

Amazing, isn't it!? How can it be that there's something which you
don't know, which you don't understand and which you can't explain!?

It makes you feel so small, doesn't it!?

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes

Quite impressive, declaring 'format=flowed', but then failing to
actually do so!

The whole point of format flowed is it flows. How can it flow if I
stick carriage returns into it?

Did anyone say anything about sticking carriage returns into the lines
you're typing?

You're moaning I'm not splitting my lines, now you're saying I don't
have to. Make up your mind. There are only two options. CRs or no
CRs, which do you want?

I didn't say you're not splitting your lines, I said they were too
long. You (seem to) think that's the same thing, but it's not.

To make something shorter you split it. Basic maths.

Read for comprehension: I'm saying *you* don't have to split your
lines. I'm *not* saying that the lines which go over the wire do not
have to be split, because they *do*. But, for 'format=flowed', they are
*not* split by a 'hard' CR, but by a (encoded) soft line wrap. That soft
line wrap can be *undone* on the receiving side to give the reader the
display line length - *any* line length - (s)he wishes. Amazing, isn't
it? And that for those stupid RFCs which are only for people who can't
think for themselves!

[More of the same misconceptions deleted.]

Perhaps there are other people in these groups who use 'Opera Mail'
and can help you. (I could direct you to *the* appropriate group, but
with your attitude, you wouldn't survive there.)

It's ok, I don't want to converse with more sad anal people like you.

Oh deary, *your* ignorance (again: ignorance is perfectly fine) is
'progressing' to cluelessness and stupidity and that somehow makes the
one which points that out "sad" and "anal"?

But, coming from you, it's a compliment I accept gladly.

And I assume you won't be asking for help in *these* groups, because
you're perfect, all-knowing, etc., right!?

[...]

And no, 'my' newsreader isn't "the best" either. "the best" doesn't
exist. Period.

Of course it does. You can easily add up the good things about each
one and say which is best overall. Just like they do with reviews on
cars and washing machines.

You don't get it! "the best" exists only for a particular individual
and hir needs/wants, etc.. Their is no "the best", which is the best for
everybody. That's why I said "absolutes .. don't exist".