Warning during installation of ns-2.34 on fedora-11

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/11/2010 01:05 PM, g wrote:
>
> what i said was;
>
> }> i was filtering out *base 64* posters, but there are several of them
> }> who do appear to be rather versed in their knowledge. tho i do wish
> }> they would show more of their knowledge by posting *text/plain*.
>   
Yes, which was confusing to me since there is no relationship between
the two.
> and should have clarified by further stating that base 64 is a waste also
> because of it using 2 bytes to represent 1 byte.
>   
It is only a waste when it is used unnecessarily.   Generally, I've
found that UA's these days do a fairly good job, unless overridden by
the user, of picking an appropriate CTE.  I say "generally" since it
makes even less sense to use quoted-printable when encoding a message
that is mostly in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.  Not that you'll see
this on the list.
>
>   
>> So, it really is just about html posters.
>>     
> actually, html posters who post text/html when they could be posting
> text/plain, are posting both text/plain and text/html.
>   
FWIW, I keep only the last 7 days worth of message from this list.  I
rely on the list archives and searching them.  However, 15% of the last
7 days posts are multipart where one part is html.
>
> with mozilla tsl's, most of them post thru news groups which do not allow
> use of html. but they are even worse about top posting and not stripping
> dead history than what is with this list.
>
> and, most of the mozilla posters use bogus names so they do not get spam.
> or at least that is their excuse.
>
>
> because i do save all emails, for referencing, i have a script that cleans
> out history down to '>>>' max, which cleans email files by an easy 15% to
> 20%. there are several other things that i grep out and i have had some
> months clean up by up to 40%. not a lot, but enough to make it worth it.
>
>
> one day i will/may set up a prefilter to strip headers, text/html, sig,
> and enigmail sig, as i did years ago. then it will matter little as to how
> anyone post. :)
>
>
> anyway, glad we came to an understanding. :)
>   
Yeah, too bad that filtering on the receiving end only "masks" the
problem.  :-(

I don't let any of the above bother me.  As I implied earlier....I just
ignore the entire post/question. 
>
> i have an early meeting in morning and need to crash, so,
>
> later.
>
>   


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