Re: else ladders practice

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:25:27 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 16.11.2024 17:38, David Brown wrote:

 
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?)
 

It's not that 'X-No-Archive: Yes' and 'Archive: no' headers used by
Stefan Ram are not standard. They are just very unusual. He also has
'X-No-Archive-Readme' header that indicates that he expects that Usenet
servers will interpret his headers in a way that no real world
automatic server software would do. It looks like he expects individual
treatment by human being.