Neb,

You are a poster boy for "Bad Netiquette". Not only are you an idiot
and don't understand what you are talking about, but you are damn rude
as well.

You wrote to me in a private email and I thought I had explained to
you why you shouldn't send binary attachments to a newsgroup not
chartered for such. I thought I had gotten that through to you, but I
guess not.

In brief, here are my responses to your non-sequitur rhetoric you
posted publicly he

1) S/MIME IS a binary attachment. That's why the mime type is
"APPLICATION" and encoded with "BASE64". The fact that you can't see
those 60-70 lines of crap doesn't mean that its not there or that its
not binary. PGP has about 4 lines, what's wrong with that?

2) The fact that you have the gall to complain about my 7 lines of
signature when you sent 60-70 for a signature really amazes me -
Notwithstanding your Anti-American comments about my signature.

3) You said I replied to a post with over 200 quoted lines. I'm still
waiting for you to provide evidence of that. I won't say I never did
that, but its not-standard for me to do so. If I did, it was by
mistake. However, your inability to provide proof says that it
probably never happened.

4) My return email address is not hidden. It may be obfuscated to
prevent spambots from getting it, but not in a way that humans can't
understand how to modify it to get the real address. The fact that
you were able to send me email proves that even stupid humans can
figure it out.

5) As for the charter of this newsgroup, do you see the word "BINARY"
or "BINARIES" in the name of this group? Did you see anything in the
charter that said "binaries allowed"? If not, then its a TEXT ONLY
newsgroup. Obviously, you are a few bricks shy of a full load if you
didn't know that. For that matter, how many binary groups are in the
Big-8 groups? Not many the last I checked. Most binary groups I
found were ALT groups.

Lastly, Neb, I will point out that this is a TEXT-ONLY group about
rotorcraft. Its nice that you are a concerned citizen with a video
tape of a helicopter that later had a hard landing and want to get it
to the proper authorities.

However, if you need an education on netiquette, then this is not the
place to get it. However, if you violate netiquette rules on the
massive scale that you did, then you are going to hear about it. You
should do a Google search on such and you'll probably find a few sites
that explain it.

Dennis.


Dennis Hawkins
n4mwd AT amsat DOT org (humans know what to do)

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