Re: Test

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Dustan wrote:
On Feb 2, 10:02 pm, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Google is broken. Don't use Google newsgroups.

When they quote a post, they change things,
putting graphic characters in place of spaces
and inserting weird comments of its own.

Please use a correctly working newsgroup access.

I know this wasn't in response to me, but: please point out a broken
post that *I* have made. I always delete those weird "show/hide quoted

That is good. Do they insert any other format expressions?

text" comments (which I haven't seen recently), and I have never seen
graphic characters in place of spaces. If you can't do what I asked,
then you can't complain about me, specifically, using Google Groups.

Here's an example.
Quote this with Google.
That is
<tab> Quote this with Google.

Now if every other blank space isn't hex A0, a graphic character,
save it off to a file and look at it with a text editor instead
of a word processors. Is there a Google option that prevents such
perversion of quoted material?

For a comparision, you could also send me your reply with quoted material
included by email.

The new fangle greedy stock market commerical Google also made it hard to
find the quote option, which was a another time when we were Google
Goosed. Go away Google.

A different bitch, common with some friends, is those who use a word
processor that uses few fancy graphic and control character characters for
the quote and apostrophie characters.


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