in need of some help...
Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
kwpolska at gmail.com
Sun May 12 11:59:54 EDT 2013
(slightly offtopic, sorry.)
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt at toerring.de> wrote:
> PS: If I may ask you a favor: consider refraining from using Google's
> completely broken interface to newsgroups - your post consists
> of nearly 200 lines of text containing all I wrote, with an empty
> line inserted between each of them, and a single line of text
> you wrote. It's rather annoying to have to sieve through that
> much of unrelated stuff just to find thar one line that's re-
> levant.
Gmail automatically hides long quotes. This is helpful in situations
like this one. More mail software should implement that
functionality. Seriously: once you go Gmail, you never go back.
> And this Google groups crap seems to make it nearly
> impossible to do it any other way. If you don't believe me see
> e.g.
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
>
> There are much better alternatives to "Google groups",
> using a real usenet news server and a program that does
> not mess up content of news group postings. They've been
> developed with 30 years of experience with newsgroups.
Or something even better: a mailing list.
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list is where you can
find it. Much friendlier than Usenet, and the software itself is
developed by the FLUFL.
> If I'd be conspiracy theorist I would conclude that Google
> is up to something bad in trying to make using newsgroups
> nearly impossible by their badly broken stuff (and, to add
> credibility to such a claim, their complete disregard for
> all the criticism they got over the years, actually making
> each version of Google groups even worse), but it's rather
> likely just another case of pure incompetence (or a "why
> should we care" attitude:-(
They shouldn’t care because Usenet users often yell “Get off my
lawn!”. Young people don’t use newsgroups. They don’t even know what
Usenet is.
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