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[QUOTE="Alexander Bartolich, post: 1693601"]
begin  followup to Mark McIntyre:

Amid a sea of top-posters, overlong attribution lines, outright
quote-fakers and other trolls it's amazing how long this simple
issue can drag on.

First of all, my attribution line is not a violation of the strict
no-binaries-rule. A valid uuencode block would look like this: [0]

begin 664 hello
  &:&5L;&\*
  `
  end

Note the (octal) number between keyword 'begin' and the filename.
Granted, the concept of file permissions, also called 'mode', does
not make much sense on FAT, HPFS or NTFS. Still it is strange to
be so extremely liberal in accepting non-text input.

Anyway, this is a well-known bug [1] that will not get fixed.
Which leads to the secret cycle of success:

1. Software has bug, some person "exploits" bug
2. That person gets verbal abuse, but nobody else
3. Users don't switch, bug does not get fixed
4. Vendor gets profit, goto 1.

In the words of Jean-Luc Picard:
# We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats:
# They invade our space and we fall back. 
# They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again.
# The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! [...]
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