Posted by Harlan Messinger on 09/15/07 22:12

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On Sep 15, 8:30 am, Harlan Messinger
> <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> This has what to do with HTML?
>
> This problem could come up for a .html file just as well as for .vob
> and other movie files :-) . I have actually put up a short DVD movie
> file on the server as a test on a html page. It is of course more
> general than just html.

In fact, it has nothing to do with HTML. The fact that the file in HTML
has nothing to do with what you were asking about.

> When I first posted about the problem here
> many months ago, some people made suggestions. Thus I thought it would
> be nice to post how the problem was finally solved. I received no
> useful suggestions when I posted on Microscope groups a few months
> ago. If the subject is not of interest to someone, the title should
> tell them that they do not need to read the message.

You could use that same logic to justify posting anything anywhere. And
then we'd have newsgroups where we have to skip hundreds of articles
whose titles tell us they don't belong there just to find the articles
that do. This is why Usenet isn't just one big undifferentiated
newsgroup. It should be obvious.

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