[Info-vax] Real Usenet clients, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-31, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  On Jan 31, 10:43 am, Paul Sture <nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
>> In article <kednbp$43... at dont-email.me>,
>>  Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> > In addition, the message did not have the long lines problem as well.
>>
>> > I would also like to know what AEF is doing. Even in other technically
>> > aware newsgroups (ie: comp.arch.embedded), you still see the same Google
>> > Groups problems as you do here.
>>
>> I add my vote to AEF telling us how he does it.
>>
>
> Well, I open Firefox, read a post, click Reply, type in my answer, do
> some quote trimming, tab to the Send button, and press the spacebar.
> That's how I do it now on the Mac. Before that, with PC's, it was
> pretty similar. I cannot imagine what others are doing wrong.
>

[snip]

Thanks for the detailed feedback.

You are clearly using the old Google Groups, but then so are others and
they still have problems.

I wonder if you have hit on a random combination of settings which
just causes Google to output a sanely formatted message ?

Fixed font would be the obvious candidate for making a difference, but
I cannot believe you are the first one to have tried that.

Simon.

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