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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-31, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article 
><0cf854bd-6736-41a7-aef9-0f7b94ded1ca at u16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>  AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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?
>
> I don't know what you are doing and others aren't but this post is 
> perfectly legible here (using MT-NewsWatcher on OS X). It doesn't suffer 
> from the double spaced lines that I see in other posts from Google 
> Groups.
>

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.

Simon.

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