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

[AEF]

On Jan 29, 2:13 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-01-29, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
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> > On 2013-01-29 17:47:04 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
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> >> On 2013-01-29, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
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> >>> ps: Get yourself a news reader for your preferred platform and a (free)
> >>> account on Endless September, or one of the other (free) nntp servers
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> >> $ set response/mode=good_natured
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> >> That's a bit of a change from you. :-)
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> > Um, OK.
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> > I've changed my opinion on server uptime and on some other topics, but
> > I don't recall switching sides on the morass that is Google Groups.
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> > Corrections and objections here are welcome, of course.
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> In previous discussions, when Google Groups started, for example, including
> HTML and XML escape entities in messages as well as encoding messages as
> one very long line per paragraph, the impression you gave at the time was
> that since Google was doing this it was suddenly ok, and we should just
> accept it.
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> Based on what you say here, that may not be what you intended to say, but
> that's how it came across at the time.
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> Simon.
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> PS: I'm not talking about things like encoding 8-bit non-UK/non-US
> characters for display in a 7-bit environment; that's just the reality of
> of today's international environment. I'm talking about all the other
> things they did such as, for example, HTML and XML escaping common
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> PPS: Regarding the line length issue; if you ever look at the raw source
> of a message generated using Google Mail, you will see that Google break
> long lines into lines less than 80 characters in length (or at least they
> used to do when I last checked a few months ago). I see no reason why
> Google could not use the same code in their Usenet client as well.
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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

I ask again:

I've been using Google Groups for posting to and reading this
newsgroup for years, and no one here has EVER complained about the
formatting of my posts. They _have_ complained about content (!), but
never formatting. Am I missing something here?

AEF