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

[AEF]

On Feb 1, 7:28 am, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-01-31, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >  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.
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> >> > 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.
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> >> I add my vote to AEF telling us how he does it.
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> > 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.
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> Thanks for the detailed feedback.

YW.

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> You are clearly using the old Google Groups, but then so are others and
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> I wonder if you have hit on a random combination of settings which
> just causes Google to output a sanely formatted message ?

There are only two setting: view and font. You can have standard view
vs view as tree. And you can have proportional text vs fixed font.
That's it!

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

I never tried to fix the problems people are complaining about. I
simply wanted to make things more readable. And why would you want
"proportional text" (that's what Google Groups calls it) for an OS
newsgroup?

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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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