X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Neo_1061) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Strange behavior of ld Organization: Geeks Anonymous Message-ID: <3cc7895e.93840542@news.primus.ca> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 46 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 04:52:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.209.246 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news.tor.primus.ca 1019710334 216.254.209.246 (Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:52:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:52:14 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:25:09 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii jacked into the Matrix and the following appeared in comp.os.msdos.djgpp: > >On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Neo_1061 wrote: > >> >> >Try http://news.cis.dfn.de. It's free and very good. >> >> >> >> Web based news? Thanks, but no thanks. >> > >> >Who said it's Web based? >> >> The fact that the URL starts with "http://" instead of "news://" is a >> clue... > >It's a wrong clue. Well, I can't be faulted for being misled when someone posts a "wrong clue" now can I? :P >You've asked for a news server, not a Web-based service... Hence my consternation at seeing an "http://" in the response, rather than "news://"... >Checking out the URL ... might have helped. I prefer not to follow WWW links in news postings and email without having some idea what to expect at the other end, and strong indication that it will be useful or interesting; many news and mail programs are rather unstable when it comes to following links and invoking the web browser, so I am resigned to copying and pasting links manually, which constitutes "work"; and that work is often fruitless since all too often links are posted or mailed about that don't work, or lead to garbage, etc. -- in particular something that looks likely to be a web-based news service doesn't interest me a great deal. (Undoubtedly you'll be thinking "But I never post a link I'm not sure is working!" -- maybe so, but if I had a penny for every time I saw a URL in a fresh, apparently honest-intentioned news posting that didn't work (404, host unknown, etc.), I would be able to pay for a top-of-the-line ritzy news service without batting an eyelash :)) -- Still waters run deep.