Re: The quaternion group as a product
- From: magidin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Arturo Magidin)
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 01:15:34 +0000 (UTC)
In article <4276123.1211229915285.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Adam Burley <ajburley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't read the newsgroup through a browser. That's
part of the
problem. Not everyone reads the newsgroup through a
browser, or
through (bleach) MathForum.
I don't quite understand this, but I posted the message to a Maths
forum on the internet called "Math Forum".
I know. You notice I even named it?
The Math Forum is a web interface that allows you to read and post to
a Usenet Newsgroup called "sci.math". Newsgroups predate web browsers.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
It is located at
mathforum.org. If my post has somehow been copied to other forums, and
copied incorrectly (all as one line) then I apologise for that.
Math Forum's interface does not provide appropriate end-of-line
characters to the text it sends (as opposed to other web interfaces;
even google knows how to send a proper end-of-line character.
When you type in the Math Forum's editor, it automatically provides
you a new line when you reach the edge of the screen; but this is in
fact an illusion: it only works when you are dealing with Math Forum's
interface or with other similar interfaces (like google). When you
read the message through some of the standard interfaces (like I do,
using text-based trn), there is no end-of-character line.
And you are continuing to do it.
There is a very simple way to solve the problem: don't rely on Math
Forum's editor to start a new line for you when you type. When you are
approaching the edge of the screen as you type, hit ENTER instead of
continuing to type. Back in the days of typewriters, this was called
the "carriage return", because it sent the "carriage" back to the
beginning (again, you can see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return )
Compare the SOURCE message, for example, with Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/2ee7aba4bc
cc8c5d?dmode=source
Yes, I see that the message all runs as one line there. However, I
did not post the message to Google Groups, I posted it to "Math
Forum".
No, you did not. You posted the message to sci.math, THROUGH "Math
Forum". Math Forum is not a location, in this guise it is a PORTAL to
Usenet. Your message was posted to sci.math. Again, if you have no
clue what I'm talking about, check out wikipedia.
Obviously someone has copied the message onto this Google
site, and copied it incorrectly.
No, they didn't. YOU posted it to Usenet, distributed worldwide,
through the Math Forum. Google happens to receive Usenet messages and
have them available. I'm reading it through the Newsserver at UC
Berkeley. Others read it from all kinds of other places.
Perhaps in future just ignore my messages if they appear on another
forum, as someone is obviously copying them across to there, and this
is not what I intended.
All your messages are appearing WORLDWIDE. If this was not your
intention, perhaps you should stop posting and learn a bit about what
it is you got into instead of wondering how come everyone is saying
those big words you don't understand.
However if you like maths then I would really recommend that you try
going on Math Forum, it is quite good and they have a lot of maths
topics on there. I have never really tried Google or the "newsgroup",
so I can't comment on those.
You ARE in a newsgroup. son. And I've been posting to sci.math for
over 15 years.
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