Wiki offline

[John Rumm]

Just a heads up to say its down and the mo, and may be for few days...

Normal service will be resumed shortly!

[Dave W]

What's "Wiki"? Wikepdia is OK. "its down and" should be "it's down at".

[Bob Eager]

He means the uk.d-i-y wiki. Normally (but not right now) at:

[John Rumm]

Its Hawaiian, it means "quick"

Wikepdia is OK.

and?

"its down and" should be "it's down

Could you do the little squiggly red underlines next time please...

[newshound]

:-)

[AnthonyL]

How do you arrive at that from what I see of Dave W's post?:

T24gV2VkLCAxMCBGZWIgMjAyMSAyMDo1Mzo0MCArMDAwMCwgSm9obiBSdW1tDQo8c2VlLm15LnNp Z25hdHVyZUBub3doZXJlLm51bGw+IHdyb3RlOg0KDQo+SnVzdCBhIGhlYWRzIHVwIHRvIHNheSBp dHMgZG93biBhbmQgdGhlIG1vLCBhbmQgbWF5IGJlIGZvciBmZXcgZGF5cy4uLg0KPg0KPk5vcm1h bCBzZXJ2aWNlIHdpbGwgYmUgcmVzdW1lZCBzaG9ydGx5IQ0KDQpXaGF0J3MgIldpa2kiPyBXaWtl cGRpYSBpcyBPSy4gIml0cyBkb3duIGFuZCIgc2hvdWxkIGJlICJpdCdzIGRvd24NCmF0Ii4NCi0t IA0KRGF2ZSBXDQo=

Even ROT13 gives me gibberish.

Note I'm using a traditional Newsreader.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Dave W's posts are MIME encoded.

[Andy Burns]

paste it into a base64 decoder, e.g.

[Andy Burns]

I'm surprised freeagent can't cope with encoded body text ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

which is completely non standard for Usenet and should be rejected

[Dave W]

I'm ever so sorry. I am using Forte Agent newsreader. What coding should I be using to avoid your rejection?

[Dave W]

By all means, but I thought Usenet was meant to be plain text only.

[AnthonyL]

OK, so you are posting in MIME64 which as far as I know was intended for binary attachments.

I can read what you've written if I paste it into Notepad++ and do a Base64 decode, which of course I don't intend to do as a matter of course.

I think at least in this group that you are the only person posting in such a way. Usenet fundamentally was/is a text based system.

I use a really old Forte Agent 1.21/32 1995-1999. Folk with later newsreaders will have the capacity to interpret and post more complex stuff, which in my view has not done any favours to Usenet. So I have problems when html is posted though obviously I can read the text.

To go with the spirit of Usenet you should change your Options, sorry can't tell you which one, to post as Text when posting to Newsgroups.

Hope that helps.

[The Natural Philosopher]

TBH that statement I made ceased to be true some while ago. MIME is acceptable on Usenet these days. But most people do not code it.

Thunderbird wont let me do any text decoration so I guess its also not using MIME encoded stuff.

Look thru the choices under Tools>Options>URL and Mime Settings.

[The Natural Philosopher]

utf-8 is good news for stränge characters and 7 bit is vanilla as it gets

[AnthonyL]

I've just had a look at

Not much mention of text there :(

[The Natural Philosopher]

so have I and its crap documentation and they expect you to pay for it and 1.7 is so old the programmer has probably died and gone to hell

[The Natural Philosopher]

I found an old v 1.5 user guide in australia

try Options?General Preferences?Languages tab.

and set usenet text to 7bit not mime and unset usenet mime headers

[Tim Streater]

Base64 encoded.

[Tim Streater]

Nothing wrong with base64. Your email client will use that when it needs to send an image. It bulks up the transfer somewhat but we have moved on a bit from 9600bps. Strickly, base64 or quoted-printable should be used whenever the body does not consist of pure ASCII, so any multiple-byte UTF-8 should be thus encoded too. ISTM that 7bit implies ASCII anyway.