Text 3127, 63 rader
Skriven 2008-04-15 14:56:53 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 3116 av Frank Reid (1536.fidoftscpubl)
Ärende: Re: Proper nodelist format for Internet-only nodes?
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FR> > They didn't write to the author but to the user to take care of the
FR> > problem.
 
FR> Completely irrelevant.  Again, you refuse to accept that this truncation
FR> was a design decision.
 
Running half of the hydraulical lines under the middle-section of the
passenger-cabin was a "design-decision" on the DC10 which caused the Turkish
Airlines crash at Ermenonville in France after decompression and part of the
cabin-floor caving in as a result. It ripped-out power to the tail
control-surfaces.
 
Another "design decision" on the DC10 was to run the hydraulical lines which
control the leading-edge slats close to the edge of the wing. As a result when
that American Airlines machine at O'Hare lost that port-engine and it ripped
through the front of the wing it took-out the hydraulical pressure and the
slats retracted causing the left wing to stall and the plane to backflip
killing all aboard.
 
In that same plane it was a "design decision" to use hydraulic power to extend
the slats without locking-mechanism while extended. Retracting was done by
reducing hydraulic pressure .. controlled or uncontrolled. Locking the slats
would have avoided that catastrophy, but it was a "design decision" to not do
that.
 
All these "design decisions" were discovered to be crapiola and were altered.
 
There's no problem for an author to deal with faulty "design decisions".
 
FR> The author of the BBS *chose* to truncate the
FR> quoted lines within its simple, internal line-editor rather than
FR> reformatting paragraphs or allowing spillover onto subsequent lines.
FR> (Personally, it bugs me far more when a quoter reformats my paragraphs
FR> and removes my deliberately added double-spaces between sentences and
FR> ellipses...  and most seem to be guilty of that.)
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They're still there ...
 
FR> SBBS is one of (if not the) most actively supported BBS software today.
 
That is nice. When will it behave better in the Fido-environment into which it
releases text?
 
FR> The author continues to support it actively as a hobby.
 
Yes, and ... "what" ?       Somebody active in a hobby-environment supporting
something actively as hobby ... Isn't that what it's supposed to be like in a
hobby?
 
FR> These types of arguments frustrate me.  If your goal is to keep
FR> newcomers out of Fidonet by browbeating them on the nuances of software
FR> they can't change, you're succeeding.  Perhaps you should require that
FR> everyone joining Fidonet also know Morse code?
 
You're fast at the end of your arguments, it seems, otherwise I don't
understand the need to become personal.
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd 

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