Re: use of small kana on the increase?

"Phil Yff" <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Your posts are not getting through to most news servers. My guess, looking
at the header info, is that you are posting thru Google Groups and Google
Groups is not sending out your post with its news feed. I think it's
because your posts use base64 content transfer encoding. Google Groups
doesn't like base64, and I think it is excluding your post from the news
feed for that reason. I think it's your method of inputing the Japanese
that probably results in the base64 encoding.

Well you're not 100% wrong but I think you've misdiagnosed a little.

First I don't think Google Groups minds base 64, it's the other servers
that don't pick it up (because it looks like binary).

Second I doubt it's the method of inputting Japanese, it's much more
likely to be an inappropriate encoding chosen to view the Google Groups page when entering the text or some encoding/language setting in Google Groups preferences.

First, change the way you input the Japanese. I generally write my
Japanese in a word processor and cut and paste into the newsreader.

Icky, icky, ick ick.

It's good practice to ensure there are hard line breaks to keep each line length
less than 70 characters.

Yes, but that's irrelevant to her posts disappearing.

Second, if you want to see what is happening to your posts, cross post to
misc.test. Make sure you have a valid e-mail return address in your post
and you will get an e-mailed audit trail of what's happening to your post.

My two recommendations are
1. Don't post with Google Groups.
or
2. If you do post with Google Groups get advice from somebody who regularly and _successfully_ posts with Google Groups.

I wish I could have written the above in Japanese but computer terminology
is not my strong point.

And then you go and wrap up things by insulting her English comprehension.
.

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