From: benc@krustbustr.hawaga.org.uk (Ben Clifford) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: YKYBHTLW... Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:53:24 +0000 Organization: benZone Lines: 7 Message-ID: Reply-To: benc@benzone.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-163.bicolor-dottyback.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 979668150 19350 62.136.230.163 (16 Jan 2001 18:02:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jan 2001 18:02:30 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed01.univie.ac.at!newsmaster-01.atnet.at!atnet.at!newsrouter.chello.at!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!benc Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73153 ... one of your (non-technical) colleages writes: 16.01.01 and you are about to remind them that IP addresses have *four* parts. -- http://www.hawaga.org.uk/travel/ for my rotating world map applet http://www.hawaga.org.uk/benc_key.txt PGP / GPG key 0x30F06950 - please use it! Telnet to krustbustr.hawaga.org.uk for interactive chat. ###### Message-ID: <3A661361.F7E49217@swipnet.se> From: Thommy M. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Malmstr=F6m?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.151.86.237 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 979767706 212.151.86.237 (Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:41:46 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:41:46 MET DST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 X-Sender: s-769451@d212-151-86-237.swipnet.se Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:49:21 +0100 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!192.71.180.34!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!nntpserver.swip.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73518 Ben Clifford wrote: > > ... one of your (non-technical) colleages writes: 16.01.01 and you > are about to remind them that IP addresses have *four* parts. Nowadays they have *six*... ;-) /Thommy M. > -- > http://www.hawaga.org.uk/travel/ for my rotating world map applet > http://www.hawaga.org.uk/benc_key.txt PGP / GPG key 0x30F06950 - please use it! > Telnet to krustbustr.hawaga.org.uk for interactive chat. ###### From: benc@krustbustr.hawaga.org.uk (Ben Clifford) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:42:48 +0000 Organization: benZone Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <3A661361.F7E49217@swipnet.se> Reply-To: benc@benzone.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-59.gold-spangled.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 979772835 19860 62.137.18.59 (17 Jan 2001 23:07:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 2001 23:07:15 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!benc Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73527 On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:49:21 +0100, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: >> ... one of your (non-technical) colleages writes: 16.01.01 and you >> are about to remind them that IP addresses have *four* parts. > >Nowadays they have *six*... ;-) 32 if you are writing them newfangled 128-bit ones. -- -- http://www.hawaga.org.uk/travel/ for my rotating world map applet http://www.hawaga.org.uk/benc_key.txt PGP / GPG key 0x30F06950 - please use it! ###### From: hnsngr@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Message-ID: References: <3A661361.F7E49217@swipnet.se> Organization: ErsteSoft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Lines: 13 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:41:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.103.86.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 979864904 216.103.86.8 (Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:41:44 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:41:44 CST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73689 In article <3A661361.F7E49217@swipnet.se>, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: > Ben Clifford wrote: > > > > ... one of your (non-technical) colleages writes: 16.01.01 and you > > are about to remind them that IP addresses have *four* parts. > > Nowadays they have *six*... ;-) Nice troll. -Ron Hunsinger ###### From: mwmiller@columbus.rr.com (Matthew W. Miller) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... References: Reply-To: mwmiller@columbus.rr.com x-deja-sucks: yes Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Lines: 8 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:17:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.24.100.78 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.columbus.rr.com 979949838 65.24.100.78 (Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:17:18 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:17:18 EST Organization: Road Runner Columbus Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!dca1-feed3.news.digex.net!intermedia!cyclone.columbus.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone-midwest.rr.com!typhoon.columbus.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73758 On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:53:24 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote: >... one of your (non-technical) colleages writes: 16.01.01 and you >are about to remind them that IP addresses have *four* parts. As opposed to admonishing them for not writing "2001-01-16"? -- Matthew W. Miller -- mwmiller@columbus.rr.com ###### From: jmfbahciv@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: Mon, 22 Jan 01 11:37:09 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <94ha93$a8o$12@bob.news.rcn.net> References: <94fquu$6qc$1@teabag.cbhnet> X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZ9cmhq96TlQ3Vcm++zGwCxA20mmexOHmS7A8/evIYX79kLi+xJwkCV X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2001 12:49:39 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!207-172-102-30 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73934 In article <94fquu$6qc$1@teabag.cbhnet>, cbh@REMOVE_THIS.teabag.fsnet.co.uk (Chris Hedley) wrote: >In article , > mwmiller@columbus.rr.com (Matthew W. Miller) writes: >> As opposed to admonishing them for not writing "2001-01-16"? > >I still prefer "16-Jan-2001" personally, although in general I prefer >descending-orders (for example, I preferred JANET's addressing scheme >of uk.ac.hatfield.unix1 rather than unix1.hatfield.ac.uk, but I'm >showing my age there, I suppose...) At least you've converted to unfixed field widths. I think being able to sort non-fixed field widths is a neater invention than sliced bread. /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail. ###### From: cbh@REMOVE_THIS.teabag.fsnet.co.uk (Chris Hedley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 21 Jan 2001 23:22:06 GMT Organization: teabag Message-ID: <94fquu$6qc$1@teabag.cbhnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: teabag.cbhnet X-NNTP-Posting-Host: teabag.demon.co.uk:193.237.4.110 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 980120869 nnrp-08:20631 NO-IDENT teabag.demon.co.uk:193.237.4.110 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jan 2001 23:22:06 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Lines: 10 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed1.news.nl.uu.net!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!teabag.demon.co.uk!teabag.cbhnet!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73917 In article , mwmiller@columbus.rr.com (Matthew W. Miller) writes: > As opposed to admonishing them for not writing "2001-01-16"? I still prefer "16-Jan-2001" personally, although in general I prefer descending-orders (for example, I preferred JANET's addressing scheme of uk.ac.hatfield.unix1 rather than unix1.hatfield.ac.uk, but I'm showing my age there, I suppose...) Chris. ###### From: cbh@REMOVE_THIS.teabag.fsnet.co.uk (Chris Hedley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW... Date: 22 Jan 2001 23:23:47 GMT Organization: teabag Message-ID: <94ife3$but$4@teabag.cbhnet> References: <94fquu$6qc$1@teabag.cbhnet> <94ha93$a8o$12@bob.news.rcn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: teabag.cbhnet X-NNTP-Posting-Host: teabag.demon.co.uk:193.237.4.110 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 980206458 nnrp-10:2987 NO-IDENT teabag.demon.co.uk:193.237.4.110 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2001 23:23:47 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Lines: 11 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!teabag.demon.co.uk!teabag.cbhnet!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:73909 In article <94ha93$a8o$12@bob.news.rcn.net>, jmfbahciv@aol.com writes: > At least you've converted to unfixed field widths. I think > being able to sort non-fixed field widths is a neater invention > than sliced bread. I think it's possible to do using sort(1) although I've always found its ordering of sort key precedence to be a bit flakey. Or maybe I'm just pressing the wrong buttons, as usual. Chris.