Re: else ladders practice

On 19/11/2024 07:25, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 16.11.2024 17:38, David Brown wrote:

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I wonder what happened to Stefan.  He used to make perfectly good posts.
  Then he disappeared for a bit, and came back with this new "style".
>
Given that this "new" Stefan can write posts with interesting C content,
such as this one, and has retained his ugly coding layout and
non-standard Usenet format, I have to assume it's still the same person
behind the posts.

 Sorry that I cannot resist asking what you consider "non-standard
Usenet format", given that your posts don't consider line length.
(Did the "standards" change during the past three decades maybe?
Do we use only those parts of the "standards" that we like and
ignore others? Or does it boil down to Netiquette is no standard?)
 Janis, just curious and no offense intended :-)
 

I hadn't even considered taking offence!  And if you are right that my line length is wrong, I am glad to be told.
AFAIK, my posts /do/ follow line length standards.  You are using Thunderbird like me, I believe - select one of my posts and use ctrl-U to see the source, and the lines are split appropriately.  But depending on the details of posts and clients, and the way lines are split (manually or automatically), lines are not always displayed with a 72 character width.
Stefan's posting format has extra indentation for his prose, but additional quoted material (such as code) is outdented.  Perhaps that does not count as "non-standard Usenet format", but it is certainly a formatting style that is highly unusual and characteristic.