Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Don't use default Google Group client (was re:....) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <6f2b7$525f2302$5419b3e4$13466@cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> <13f400f3-7f64-45e3-8483-160fd1f28158@googlegroups.com> <526b2b90$0$29972$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1382970204 9996 64.122.56.22 (28 Oct 2013 14:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:23:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57827 On 2013-10-26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:44:45 -0700, rurpy wrote: > >> On 10/25/2013 02:05 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> On 10/25/2013 2:57 PM, Peter Cacioppi wrote: >>>> The default Google Group client is notoriously cruddy with quotes >>>> attribution. >>> >>> So don't use it. Get any decent newsreader, such as Thunderbird, and >>> access the list at news.gmane.org as gmane.comp.python.general. >> >> Peter, you can ignore Terry's "advice" if Google Groups works for you. >> There are a small number of Google haters here who seem larger due to >> their obnoxious noisiness. > > There are people here who hate Google Groups but simply don't chime in. > I'm one of them. Perhaps I should. More that a few of us just filter out all posts made from Google Groups. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having a MID-WEEK at CRISIS! gmail.com