Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

[Walter Hurry]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My
> hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP
> with an HTML <p>, and then on outgoing replacing the <p> with a pair of
> NNTP line endings. In contrast, text composed on Google is coming in as
> long single lines (since quoting said text in a response produces on a
> ">" at the start of the paragraph.

Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't 
they just use a proper newsreader?