JRS: In article <bub7ms$612$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Richard Cornford
<Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> posted at Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:52:58 :-[color=blue]
>"rf" <making.it.up@the.time> wrote in message
>news:pomNb.12747$Wa.3654@news-server.bigpond.net.au...[color=green]
>>
>>"David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:bu4ai4$mcm$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...[color=darkred]
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------[/color][/color]
>----[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>Posted via
http://www.forum4designers.com
>>>
>>>Forum4designers appear to be passing off Usenet
>>>as their own work. I suggest avoiding them.
>>>This is
news://comp.lang.javascript.[/color][/color]
>
>Apart from the misrepresentation of the content of the
>
www.forum4designers.com site as a service that they are providing rather
>than admitting that it all originates in Usenet newsgroups,
>
www.forum4designers.com is also a very bad place to read
>comp.lang.javascript as they are re-formatting the content of the
>newsgroup posts and loosing all of the indentation in the presented
>code.[/color]
I wonder if I can guess roughly where they are located ... it appears to
be misuse of resources belonging to others, combined with breach of
copyright law, both local and international.
Partial ostracism is probably the best we can do, unless complaining to
giganews is effective.
By that I mean not answering questions posted via that route, and
pointing out errors in replies but not giving corrected versions.
Breaches of c.l.j agreed etiquette, disregarding Uno Hoo's weirdnesses,
should however be pointed out on a regular basis.
Perhaps there is room in the c.l.j FAQ for a pointer to one or two
suitable news servers / services? Since the FAQ can be found by a naive
Web user Googling for a specific answer, ISTM right to indicate,
directly or indirectly, how the newsgroup should normally be accessed -
both from a real news-server, and from an honest, standards-compliant
Web service.
Stripping indentation is almost completely harmless in javascript,
except where it is intended that it should be read by persons. But in
plain text, which can have tables laid out by indentation, it can easily
corrupt meaning. And News is a plain text medium.
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