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Hum from phone wires running next to mains?
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:04:57 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote: "ehsjr" wrote in message news:3HTzj.19815$ES.6877@trnddc05 [snip] : : Non-standard usage can make your posts harder to : : understand, and more difficult for others. Apparently, : : you don't care. I'm just adding one more response to : : let you know that your non-standard usage is not : : appreciated. Ok, you're the *second* complaint in 10+ years. When that figure gets to a noticable percentage, I might sit up and take notice. Ivor : : : : Ed Not one of the three news clients i have regularly used have any problem with these quotes. |
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:26:05 -0500, CBFalconer
wrote: PCPaul wrote: Ivor Jones wrote: "ehsjr" wrote in message [snip] : : Non-standard usage can make your posts harder to : : understand, and more difficult for others. Apparently, : : you don't care. I'm just adding one more response to : : let you know that your non-standard usage is not : : appreciated. Ok, you're the *second* complaint in 10+ years. When that figure gets to a noticable percentage, I might sit up and take notice. Third. But don't worry about me, because *plonk* The only problem with a straight plonk is that other peoples quotes of the plonkee shine through. The advantage of that is that one has a chance to decide the plonk should be retracted. -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Try the download section. One of the major reasons that i do not plonk anything but pure spam. |
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:41:38 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote: wrote in message [snip] : What can be confusing to people is the double ": :" : usage. That makes : it look like you quoted with ":" what your previous : poster quoted with ":". So instead of that quoted text : being understood as the part of : the parent post, it gets misunderstood as part of the : grandparent post. : It also looks like you or your software replaced other : people's quoting character with ":" or ": :". Whatever : anyone uses, that should be : left as is (unless it is clearly broken). It's OE Quotefix and I've found the setting that caused it to convert the existing quote marks and I've disabled that, so they should now be as they were. Hope this helps. Ivor The prudes are not listening any more. |
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Hum from phone wires running next to mains?
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:43:18 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote: "kony" wrote in message [snip] : I don't know about "only thing worse", there are lots of : worse things but make it a 4th complaint because it : should not be someone else's burden to cope with : non-standard quote marks - even if many newsreader apps : can do so. It shouldn't be *my* problem if your software can't cope. Ivor That depends on how non-standard you are. Just because some newsreaders can cope does not make it standard or right. Your stuff don't bother me none. News clients that produce non-quotable posts do bother me, it makes trying to reply worthless. |
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Hum from phone wires running next to mains?
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:56:39 -0500, kony wrote:
On 5 Mar 2008 14:42:21 GMT, wrote: | One contribution I would make is that you are aware that your phone service | will support 4 REN and that each phone is normally 1 REN, meaning that you | can have a maximum of 4 phones. My parents had more of this and whilst from | their perspective it seemed to work (they could call out), it stopped people | from calling in because their phones stopped ringing. I used to see phones rated in terms of their "ringer equivalence" here in the USA. These numbers were, for some phones, as low as 0.2. I do not recall ever seeing one about 0.9. That would suggest to me that you could readily have more than 4 phones on such a phone circuit. I never had any reason to actually do a scientific test of this. It depends on how old the phones, or these days with modern electrically powered phones, cordless/etc, the REN, number may be very low per phone. IMO, no good reason not to get a cordless phone these days as some are dirt cheap, except it's nice to have at least one non-electric in case the power goes out. I think i still have an old trimline. If i can find it, maybe i should plug it in. Not much advantage though, i will still have my cell. I wonder how long the cell towers will function in a power outage. The telco backup may not be any better. Maybe it is time to get my amateur licence and a radio. |
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"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message
[snip] : So just how many different possible quote characters is : my software supposed to work for? Idiots who want to : use a non-standard quote character can choose from 100 : or so... My software (OE Quotefix, also OE as supplied) has a choice of three - the standard or : or | : You may, or may not, be able to recognize the problem : with accepting any character as the quote character... : It's exactly the same as not recognizing any quote : character at all. Or, recognizing the standard and : looking at an article formatted with a non-standard : character. : : See? No. Sorry. Explain again what exactly your *software* (as opposed to your eyes) does with quote marks anyway..? Ivor |
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"JosephKK" wrote in message
: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:43:18 -0000, "Ivor Jones" : wrote: [snip] : It shouldn't be *my* problem if your software can't : cope. : : Ivor : : That depends on how non-standard you are. Just because : some newsreaders can cope does not make it standard or : right. Your stuff don't bother me none. News clients : that produce non-quotable posts do bother me, it makes : trying to reply worthless. Which makes it the *software's* problem, not mine. If your software can't do what you want it to, get software that can. Ivor |
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:45:29 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote: "Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message [snip] : So just how many different possible quote characters is : my software supposed to work for? Idiots who want to : use a non-standard quote character can choose from 100 : or so... My software (OE Quotefix, also OE as supplied) has a choice of three - the standard or : or | : You may, or may not, be able to recognize the problem : with accepting any character as the quote character... : It's exactly the same as not recognizing any quote : character at all. Or, recognizing the standard and : looking at an article formatted with a non-standard : character. : : See? No. Sorry. Explain again what exactly your *software* (as opposed to your eyes) does with quote marks anyway..? Explain why we should need software with certain feature sets to reinterpret something so you don't have to follow standards. The whole point of usenet is to NOT need to do these things! |
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:58:41 -0800, JosephKK
wrote: I think i still have an old trimline. If i can find it, maybe i should plug it in. Not much advantage though, i will still have my cell. I wonder how long the cell towers will function in a power outage. The telco backup may not be any better. Maybe it is time to get my amateur licence and a radio. I've never had the telco power go out with a power outtage, FWIW, but I've never had to endure one that was lengthly (more than about a day). Since most outtages tend to be localized to a small area a cellphone would certainly be useful in most outtages. |
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