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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:31:08 +0100
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On 25/08/2012 13:57, David Robinow wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>>> It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My
>>> hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP
>>> with an HTML <p>, and then on outgoing replacing the <p> with a pair of
>>> NNTP line endings. In contrast, text composed on Google is coming in as
>>> long single lines (since quoting said text in a response produces on a
>>> ">" at the start of the paragraph.
>>
>> Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't
>> they just use a proper newsreader?
> I haven't used a newsreader in over a decade. I'm quite happy with a
> mailing list. Am I missing something?

Not really. I'm the same; it just means you can skip over the occasional 
ggroups-newsreader discussion threads which pop up
about 3 times a year on average.

:)

TJG