(slightly offtopic, sorry.) On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <j...@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. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
