Re: -- Google and Spam

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:13:23 -0800, William Elliot
<marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Marshall wrote:

I will not submit an opinion on whether I am smart and/or observant.
However regardless of my merits, if any, I need a news reading
solution that remembers my activity as I move from machine to
machine. I have four different ones in regular usage. I don't really
want to maintain subscriptions, read/unread lists, etc. on four
different machines. Also, I read four different groups regularly,
and only one of them is getting spamflooded.

I mention this not because I want any sympathy or whatever;
just to supply a reason why someone might stick with Google
Groups even while recognizing the severity of the spam problem.

I you want web access, then use mathforum.

William, what's wrong with you? Do you have a reading problem or a
memory problem, or both?

It's been pointed out many times that Math Forum is seriously flawed.

It's ruins the threading badly -- totally mangles it, in fact, once
there is more than one level of nesting.

In addition, Math Forum allows, and in fact encourages, the use of
graphic non-ascii characters, which work fine for the users of Math
Forum, but is unreadable to normal newsreaders.

Also, the Math Forum default text window is not very wide, so replies
to a 70 chars per line post will typically get wrapped at 40 chars per
line, causing a horribly chopped replication of the quoted material.

All in all, math posts from Math Forum are _worse_ in terms of the
transmitted format than similar posts from Google Groups.

quasi
.

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