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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:07:00PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> I refer you to point 8 of the Discussion Group ToS:
> http://www.lugnet.com/admin/terms/agreement
>
> 8. (do not) Post non-plain-text content such as HTML, multi-part MIME
> messages, or so-called ?binaries? including but not limited to:
> images, sounds, multimedia files, computer programs, and blocks of
> text created using binary-to-text conversion utilities such as
> BinHex, uuencode, btoa, and PGP message encryptions (short PGP
> signatures, however, are permitted by the server).
>
> These encoded messages are clearly "non-plain-text content" and are
> not "short PGP signatures" and therefore are against the ToS. Even in
> the test.foo group
>
> You're SO lucky I don't have cancel power.
How is the following not plain text? It's encoded, but so are 8-bit
posts ('quoted-printable'). It's not binaries, and not created using any
binary-to-text utilities - it's just text-to-text conversion.
576520616C6C206B6E6F772074686174204C617272792773206A75737420746F6F206C617A7920746F20666967757265206F757420686F7720746F206465636F64652074686973203A290A0A4257414841484148414841480A0A
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) (snip) (...) (snip) OK guys, knock it off, please... I refer you to point 8 of the Discussion Group ToS: (URL) (do not) Post non-plain-text content such as HTML, multi-part MIME messages, or so-called “binaries” including but not limited to: (...) (21 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo)
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