Re: Can anybody help?

From: Active8 (reply2group_at_ndbbm.net)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:51:25 -0500

On 14 Mar 2005 02:08:32 -0800, JeffM wrote:
> I said :)
<snip>

>>IOW, the new google is hiding the quoted text. PITA.
>> Mike (Active8)
>>
> Well, I've always thought that the auto-blockquote "feature"
> of newsreaders (and of the old Google Groups) gets (got) abused.
> It makes folks lazy.
> Shoot, when I'm paring down the old text
> I often find things I missed the 1st time.
> To me, a lack of context is preferable [1]
> to gobs of extra junk (on which the response has no bearing).
> I especially love it when ALL of a 200-line disertation is reposted
> with a 4-word response.

Right. How's this:

> many blah blahs
y
> blah
e
> blah
s
> blah
> many more blahs ...
 
>>I'd recommend 40tude Dialog for a news reader.
>>You are using G2/0.2 (never heard of it. Linux?)
>>
> That sucker is lying to you
> --or is that their way of saying "2nd try at Google Groups"?

The header of your post says:

User-Agent: G2/0.2

Ah!

Organization: http://groups.google.com

I didn't expect a user-agent header from google. WTF's the point of
it?
>
>>and between the two,
>>neither news client mangled the long link he posted. That's cool.
>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ heh!

Oops! "He" should have been "you". My head's still up my ass.
>>
> I have Super Gravity, but the only times I've used it was when

I used to use that but the reader group posters were bitching about
the new versions and I gave it up. IIRC, it would alert me to
replies (yeah a filter rule/action thing) and that was cool, but
something got me wanting more so I looked into upgrading it. Now I
run a script in Hamster personal nntp server and it alerts me to
which group, subject, level, and poster - anything I can get from
the header info - and I can import the reply to an internal group I
create or a text file. You need a server like individual.net ( I
hope the terra server will do it) that allows you to use them as an
FQDN to generate the message ID - something like that. Dialog offers
scoring, and people use that to guess whether a post is a reply to
them, but I don't like that method.

<snip>
> [1] I actually like the interface.

It's getting fixed/improved and it isn't as bad as some have made it
out to be. MS, OTOH, ... FUBAR
<snip> 

-- 
Best Regards,
Mike

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