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Wow!!! You dug down this deep to reply to the posts. Hats off. 
It's not necessary to be so stupid, either, but people manage it. - Christian Graus, 2009 AD
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http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3195190/Re-email-database.aspx[^]
Person A responds (presumably asking something related to spam). Message removed.
Person D then flames away.
Person A replies not all that imaginatively...
etc.
I really don't want the lounge turned into [message removed] wars, and extertaining if vulgar inviations to do "exotic" things with a camel's mother. OK, not completly up to me but... There's a line, and there's barely able to see the line anymore...
That's what the sewersoapbox is for!
Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww).
If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need cotract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[ ^]
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I think the thread would have gotten deleted even without the personal abuse.
The post itself was not soapbox material, just not a request anyone here will look on favorably.
Even if there were no reponses, or just a simple "we don't encourage spammers", I still would have hit "vote to remove".
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I agree - the original question was worthy of suspicion, if I infer its contents correctly. The level it descended into was more objectionable, if anything.
I've seen the soapbox arguements. That sort of thing,. bargepole, never. Construct a sentence!
Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww).
If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need cotract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[ ^]
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I prefer to have timestamps on all messages, not just ones that are older than a day. Would it be possible to have an option to switch this on?
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Added to the TODO list
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have seen on several sites recently that if you hover over a capitalized Acronym a tooltip pops up with the meaning. I don't know if you folks think it worthwhile to implement this. Obviously care needs to be taken WTF, for example, is possibly problematic although there are KSS ways to do it.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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FYI = Fince You Ignore this
WTF = Want Text in Full
KSS = Keep it Simple Smurf
Luc Pattyn
Have a look at my entry for the lean-and-mean competition; please provide comments, feedback, discussion, and don’t forget to vote for it! Thank you.
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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No! No!
I said tooltip, not fooltip! 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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NEAT
However, it's not my own acronyms that I sometimes have problems with.
Early mornings, particularly if I forget to take my tablets  , my brain cell can't cope with them. So I just thought that it would be nice if it was automatic.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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IMHO, some have multiple meanings; the author needs to specify his intended meaning.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: some have multiple meanings; the author needs to specify his intended meaning.
Whilst that is true to some extent, the multiple meanings generally have the same sentiment and are largely interchangeable without detracting from the meaning of the poster.
The only exception to that that immediately springs to mind is Chris Maunder's weird interpretation of WTF
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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CMS could be a particular product (the Code Management System of OpenVMS) or a type of product (any Content Management System).
ADA could be a programming language or the Americans with Disabilities Act.
MS could be Microsoft or Multiple Sclerosis.
And I may be the only person likely to use JYIS, so what will the system do with it?
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Once again, what you say is true but those are not the sort of acronym that I mean. The acronyms I am referring to are those that are abbreviations of everyday non tech-speak phrases (AFAIK, IMHO, FYI, LOL, LMAO, RTM, RTFM etc.)
PIEBALDconsult wrote: And I may be the only person likely to use JYIS, so what will the system do with it?
Exactly what it would do with any other acronym not in its dictionary, leave it as is. INRS after all, as an example.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Very useful to those of us OACA for whom many of these new TAFLAs are a TFM!
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ICHPIBM
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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You're too modest 
BTW
Henry Minute wrote: Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
no matter how I read this or what accent I try I really can't get it.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: no matter how I read this or what accent I try I really can't get it.
They are two separate quotes. If memory serves they are both from NotAlwaysRight.com/[^].
The first was a mis-overheard conversation between two techs by the Girl: (staring) aforementioned. It was actually "I shall need you to give me the ICQ1 number." I just put it in my sig because it is so open to interpretation. I like double-entendres.
The second was supposedly a 999 call. I put it in because it is so true. (Non party-political, applies to all flavours). IMNSHO
Footnotes: 1. Here we go again! 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Thanks, now they make sense
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Yet many (WTF, RTFM, PEBKAC, PHB, etc.) (the F ones especially) are intended to be code among we in the know.
Many others (e.g. AFAIK, IMHO, FYI) are simply laziness and I think people should just spell it out; we have bandwidth to burn don't we?
How about we do it like the smilies? Have a big list on the screen, simply click on the one you want, and the appropriate text gets inserted?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Have a big list on the screen, simply click on the one you want, and the appropriate text gets inserted? Big Grin
That's a nice idea, but I don't think people will use it. AFAIK they like acronyms.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Yes, but it could insert the acronym with the acronym tag <acronym title="It's not rocket science">INRS</acronym>.
Or, select the acronym and click the acronym button, and it gets surrounded by <acronym title=""></acronym> .
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Or, select the acronym and click the acronym button, and it gets surrounded by .
That sounds quite a good idea. If people used it, but I still think the acronym dictionary, for the really common ones, because people are so used to just typing them that they don't really think of them in an acronymly way.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: they don't really think of them in an acronymly way.
I think acronymly is an adverb, did you not mean acronymous?
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