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Re: We hire C++ programmers

Date : Le 21 avril 2006
From : Alf P. Steinbach
Sujet : Re: We hire C++ programmers

* Noah Roberts:
> Ivor Jones wrote:
>> "Dr Balwinder S Dheeman"
>> wrote in message news:g9glh3xemf.ln2@sun.sebs.org.in
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> What's wrong in posting and, or forwarding a small text
>>> message in its original form to the Usenet? What would be
>>> the difference if someone includes the same text instead
>>> of attaching it?
>> Do you really need that one spelling out..? Anything could be in an
>> attachment. Nobody with any sense opens them.
>
> Nobody with any sense uses a client that runs every attachment like an
> executable. In fact most people with sense use clients that ask before
> running even an executable it was requested to open.
>
> The only people that have to worry about ALL attachments are certain
> Windows users that use the clients MS gave them. Text attachments
> shouldn't be any concern to anyone in this group even if their client
> is capable of opening attachments. We're all too smart to use those
> broken news clients, right?

I tend to agree.

A text file attachement /containing source code/ can be very useful in a
programming group.

I can see the code directly in my newsreader (currently Thunderbird with
NewsWorthy extension), and I can easily save the file.


Follow-ups to [news.misc] (note: I don't read that group ;-)).

--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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