Re: Test

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Dustan wrote:
On Feb 4, 12:01 am, William Elliot <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's an example.
Quote this with Google.

Google usually quotes that to look like
a a a a aQuote this with Google.

That is
<tab> Quote this with Google.

Never seen it. And theoretically, if that was the case, as I scroll my
cursor across the quote above, it should skip a certain amount (which
it doesn't). Maybe it changes *after* I send.

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.

I copied the text in the text area as I'm writing this message, and
pasted it to a hexadecimal editor. No AO characters at all.

No corruption occurred with your reply.
Is copying to the text area or pasting it to a hexadecimal editor the
answer? Are their other quick and lazy ways to make a reply via Google
that is cause of the perverse use of hex A0 for hex 20?

I'm not sure what you mean, unless you're talking about the last
version of Google Groups, Google Groups 2 (currently this is GG3)? I
wasn't around during GG1, so I certainly don't call it 'new
fangled' (more like the old version, although it was, in some ways,
but not all, better than the current version). Yes, I do agree that
the difficulty in quoting material certainly reduced the value
considerably for Usenet use. But that's done and past.

It's happening as of today and was something that started last month.
How long along was that latest GC3 Glob of Googles released?

I've been very unhappy with Google ever since they became a publicly
traded stock market commodity. Invariable, when there's mergers or other
big bucks for the rich cappers, former quality deteriorates.

Go away Google.

If you can find another free web-based (with the hopeful addition of
'proper') Usenet provider, please, point me to it.

mathforum carries a number of groups including this one.
Does Yahoo provide newsgroup posting?

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 apostrophe characters.

I take it that has nothing to do with Google Groups.

That's correct. It has to do with the modern tower of Babble.

the FOAD (Fabulous offhand alien diatribe)
Once upon a time computers all spoke Ascii.
But in their arrogance acclaiming to know it all,
they were cursed to babble in a multitude of confusing formats.

They even thought they could talk people, but as
they can't, they's gonna make people talk computer.

After that, the next quantum leap in productivity
will be replacement of consumers with computers.

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