Group etiquette

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CHRISM

Hi,

Was just wondering what the group etiquette was with respect to
posting VB.NET classes or code examples. I find that if I just
copy/paste the code into FreeAgent, the code gets word-wrapped all
over the place. That makes it difficult to copy/paste the code from
the newsgroup message back into VB.NET - forcing you to fix all the
wrapped lines, etc. And I'd rather not go back and modify all my
source code so that it doesn't exceed 60 or 70 columns.

So.. is it considered rude to post code as a UU-encoded binary
attachment? Not so much for the two-liners, but for posting full
classes that are a bit larger than that.

Thanks,
// CHRIS
 
Ken,

I have seen Microsoft people asking for attachments in this newsgroups. I
have nowhere seen that it is direct forbidden.

However by a lot of participents who use dialup connections is often asked
when doing that, than to zip it and make it as small as possible.

It is seldom that I open them, so you can ask what is the benefit when more
people do that like me.

Just a little addition to your message.

Cor
 
CHRISM <[email protected]>'s wild thoughts were
released on Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:21:34 -0500 bearing the
following fruit:
Hi,

Was just wondering what the group etiquette was with respect to
posting VB.NET classes or code examples. I find that if I just
copy/paste the code into FreeAgent, the code gets word-wrapped all
over the place. That makes it difficult to copy/paste the code from
the newsgroup message back into VB.NET - forcing you to fix all the
wrapped lines, etc. And I'd rather not go back and modify all my
source code so that it doesn't exceed 60 or 70 columns.

So.. is it considered rude to post code as a UU-encoded binary
attachment? Not so much for the two-liners, but for posting full
classes that are a bit larger than that.
Click to expand...

Generally, attachments should only be posted to binary
newsgroups.

There are plenty of people who won't download your message
if it has an attachment, and those that wouldn't open it if
they did. So, you would be reducing the number of people
responding to your post.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)
 
Generally, attachments should only be posted to binary
newsgroups.

There are plenty of people who won't download your message
if it has an attachment, and those that wouldn't open it if
they did. So, you would be reducing the number of people
responding to your post.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)
Click to expand...

Thanks Jan.. I had forgotten about the whole "virus" issue.
I bet most people would not open it simply because of the
possibility of a virus. I guess the best way to go is to
create a web page and point off to that.

Cheers!
// CHRIS
 
Perhaps if you have access to a web-server of your own or Geocities or
some-such you could put code there and post a link to it.

Personally, I paste the raw text into the post after my signature and expect
the reader to figure out the unwanted line breaks later.

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