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From: Mel Books <mel@books.com>
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Subject: Re: Putting Psychopath posts back together?
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:16:41 -0700
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:03:50 -0400, Null <null@io.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:45:16 +0200, Jan wrote:
>
>
>>It is one of the most perverse encoding schemes ever invented.
>>(Ten years to Siberia would be too mild a puishment for the sadist who
>>invented it)
>>
>>First you expand all the zips, to folders containing three files each.
>>Then you combine all the fiels in all the folders into one folder.
>>(overwriting files with identical names)
>>a .nfo file, and a file_id.diz file that can be trashed.
>>You expand the segmented .rar file by feeding the .rar file to an unrar
>>utility.
>>This yielsd the original file.
>>
>>Psychopath however has added a further perversion:
>>The original filename with title and author has been replaced by random junk..
>>You have to look them up in the accompanying .nfo file,
>>and copy/paste them back to fully recover the original file.
>>(perhaps removing some spurious extra chars and returns on the way)
>>
>>In all, it is a lot of work both on the sending and receiving side,
>>it wastes processor cyles (who cares about the planet?)
>>and it usually increases the total file size to be sent.
>>
>>The why of all those unnecessary troubles is someting that psychopath
>>doesn't care to explain.
>>
>>Jan
>
>Again, why the fuck don't you step up to the plate and provide us with all
>this content, arranged the way that _you_ think it should be?
>
>No, I thought not...
Jan is a troll. Whereas I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments, I have
concluded he is simply not worth the key presses.
I find I get a smidgen of pleasure from the difficulty Jan has with such simple
tasks. Some people, like Psychopath do things and others, like Jan, sit back
and complain.
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