On 10/30/2012 11:07 PM, Robert Miles wrote:> On 9/16/2012 8:18 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Iam sorry i didnt do that on purpose and i dont know how this is done. >>> >>> Iam positng via google groups using chrome, thats all i know. >> >> It is becoming quite clear that some change has happened recently to >> Google Groups that makes posts coming from there rather more obnoxious >> than before. And there doesn't seem to be much its users can do except >> use something else.
You (BF) are wrong that there "doesn't seem to be much its users can do..." and I explained why previously. However, since you have advocated killfiling anyone using GG (which I do) you probably didn't see my post. If you choose intentional ignorance that is your choice but you do a disservice to the community by advocating that others do the same. (Officer, I don't deserve this ticket because I couldn't see the traffic signal was red; I had my eyes closed. :-) > You're probably referring to their change in the way they handle > end-of-lines, which is now incompatible with most newsreaders, > especially with multiple levels of quoting. It's a minor pain to fix this when posting, but 1. It is fixable (and previous post of mine gave a couple ways) 2. The double spacing is obvious in Google's compose window so if one posts anyway, it is a matter of laziness. > The incompatibility tends to insert a blank line after every line. > With multiple levels of quoting, this gives blank line groups that > often roughly double in size for every level of quoting. > > Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
