[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<b33b115f-fcc5-400e-bd68-b4ed7d301d58 at j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes: 

> On Aug 5, 2:20=A0pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> undress to reply) wrote:
> > There is a simpler solution: if you don't want
> > to collapse it, DON'T COLLAPSE IT.
> 
> Suppose I write a message and I use multiple spaces to align content
> into columns. I don't want the spaces collapsed, so of course I don't
> collapse it. But I am only the sender. The collapse occurs on the
> receiving terminal, which I do not control.

Right.  But why should Google Groups try to control the receiving 
terminal?

> This is the dilemma. If my message is sent unchanged, the receiving
> equipment will sometimes screw up my formatting by collapsing the
> spaces.

Then it is broken.

The receiving in might be broken, so we break the message even worse?

> But if my message is changed to use NBSP, some legacy

legacy = stuff that works