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Re: OT: usenet reader software

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Date 2014-07-23 07:25 +1000
Subject Re: OT: usenet reader software
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.12197.1406064348.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Other people
> posting from google groups are not malicious/trolls/jerks/spammers - and
> honestly until I started using slrn again, I didn't understand what all
> the fuss was about - gui news readers like Thunderbird handle the
> messages from there just fine.

Look at what happens when GG people reply to messages without
explicitly fixing the quoted text. It comes out all double-spaced.
That's not malice on their part, but eventually, some people just get
sick of it and blacklist all those posts, because it's just not worth
digging through the junk.

ChrisA

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OT:  usenet reader software memilanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> - 2014-07-18 12:10 -0700
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-18 22:40 +0300
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software Warren Post <warren@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-18 14:23 -0600
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-07-18 20:27 +0000
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2014-07-18 21:10 +0100
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software cl@isbd.net - 2014-07-19 10:40 +0100
    Re: OT:  usenet reader software Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@invalid.com> - 2014-07-20 03:48 +0000
    Re: OT: usenet reader software Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-20 14:23 +1000
    Re: OT: usenet reader software Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@invalid.com> - 2014-07-21 04:06 +0000
    Re: OT: usenet reader software Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-21 14:11 +1000
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-07-22 18:14 +0300
    Re: OT:  usenet reader software "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-07-22 14:36 -0400
  Re: OT:  usenet reader software ismeal shanshi <stuffstorehouse2014@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 10:36 -0700
    Re: OT:  usenet reader software Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 20:49 +0000
      Re: OT:  usenet reader software Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-22 20:59 +0000
        Re: OT:  usenet reader software Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 21:21 +0000
          Re: OT:  usenet reader software Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-22 21:57 +0000
        Re: OT: usenet reader software Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:25 +1000
    Re: OT: usenet reader software Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:19 +0000
      Re: OT: usenet reader software cl@isbd.net - 2014-07-24 10:58 +0100

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