I think the reason for all that complexity in what's allowed by the standards is the need, at every stage of the standardization process, to preserve compatibility with all the "legacy" address formats that have ever been used before, and might possibly still be in somebody's address; and that's a huge number of formats given that the Internet mail format standards derive in a continuous progression from standards used on various academic and research networks as far back as the early 1970s.
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RE: The email address you have been using for 10 years is not valid
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RE: How do you spell sungard?
There were those old commercials about "How do you spell relief".
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RE: Programmers trying to talk to non-programmers without getting sidetracked by trivialities? IMPOSSIBLE!
@BC_Programmer said:
3.Other people dickweed around the meaning, saying that the semantics and language aren't known so it's not a good idea to make assumptions
I don't see anything "dickweedish" about that. After getting the straightforward answer out of the way, people in the forum used it as a launching point to get into deeper discussion of the philosophy of computer language syntax and structure. That's how geeks are, and it's odd to attack this attribute on another geek forum like this.
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RE: Mail oops
It's kind of a staple TV sitcom plot to have a character send a message he/she later regrets and tries to recall, whether it's paper mail, a phone message, an email, a text message, a carrier-pigeon note, whatever.... to their boss, girl/boyfriend, the entire office/school, etc... leading to a bizarrely convoluted plot to intercept the message before it's read. Even the Flintstones did it once, so it goes back to the Stone Age.
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RE: US Postal service - International...
Second-class (back when they still used numbered classes other than First Class; eventually the Marketing Types at the USPS decided it would sound better to use different names) was what is now Periodicals.
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RE: Most games are written in Excel
Way back in the early '80s, I wrote (in Applesoft Basic) a Pac-Man-style game implemented in text mode on a spreadsheet-style screen designed to resemble the then-popular VisiCalc... it was called Calc-Man, and published on an issue of the diskmagazine Softdisk.
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RE: Nazis aren't good with data types
The matter of Excel screwing up data is something I have to deal with constantly at work... office-worker types constantly insist on opening up perfectly good CSV files in Excel and saving them out again, resulting in damage ranging from mild (like strippnig out leading zeroes in zip codes) to utterly destructive (when things like phone numbers and account numbers get converted into exponential notation).
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RE: Technical knowledege fail
@Mason Wheeler said:
@DaveK said:
SQL like a pig, boy!
I've heard people pronounce SQL as "squirrel" and "skull", but never "squeal".
I've always felt like "HDMI" ought to be pronounced to rhyme with "sodomy".
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RE: Thank you for dumbing me down, youtube
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
So me (the user) is forced to write like an idiot
They're just enforcing standard YouTube comment house style.