Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem

CBFalconer said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:
Keith Thompson said:
rlb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Bos) writes:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
Please snip signatures.
[...]
...not something _you_ should be telling him.

Why not? Sure, Chuck's signature is too long, and it happens to
have an embedded "-- "; that has no bearing on whether signatures
should be snipped when posting followups.

It's called "hypocrisy", Keith. Chuck is telling people to observe
netiquette conventions, even though his signature block violates
those same conventions.

No it doesn't. It leaves here with a perfectly compliant
signature.

I go by what I see in the newsgroup. That's all I *can* go by. And
according to what I see here, your sig block is twice the recommended
maximum number of lines. But see below.


What the various systems do in the process of passing
it on (and sometimes delaying it for a week) has nothing whatsoever
to do with my sig.

I am responsible for the articles I post here, and you are responsible for
yours. If my news service habitually hacked my articles to add
advertisements, I'd find a different news service.

You know this and are just troublemaking.

No, Chuck, I'm not, and you ought to know me better than that. I don't give
two hoots about how long your sig is, since it doesn't affect me one bit
(I'm on broadband nowadays). What I do give two hoots about is the
contrast between your demands that other people should observe netiquette
conventions and your own special pleading that netiquette conventions do
not apply to you. It's hypocritical. If you cannot, for whatever reason,
enforce the conventions of netiquette on your own articles, then you are
in no position to demand such enforcement from others.

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