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Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader

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On 05/20/11 09:07 AM, Paul N wrote:
> On May 19, 1:19 am, Keith Thompson<ks...@mib.org>  wrote:
>> Just go back to the "old" interface.  It still strips the trailing
>> blank from "-- " signature delimiters and mangles any e-mail
>> addresses that appear in the body of the message (including in
>> attribution lines), but at least it quotes properly and sets the
>> References: header.
>
> There's one slight oddity with the quoting - if it sees a } on a line
> by itself, it seems to insert a blank line just before it. Which, if
> it is the end of a function, looks odd.
>
> Mangling the email addresses is deliberate; by default (ie if you
> haven't gone through a Captcha) it will do this so bad people can't
> use the interface to get loads of email addresses. But, as it (or at
> least it used to, not sure if it still does) posts your own email
> address in clear, it makes it fully available to any bad people who
> are extracting email addresses from other USENET readers. I presume
> this is the reason I get spam on my home address. Thanks a lot.
>
> I've not tried the new interface yet - apologies in advance if it
> misbehaves on me.

It will, it is designed to!

-- 
Ian Collins

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Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Spanky <Spankme@noway.com> - 2011-05-18 17:46 -0500
  Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-05-18 19:38 -0400
    Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 11:42 +1200
    Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-18 17:19 -0700
      Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2011-05-19 14:07 -0700
        Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-20 09:14 +1200
      Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 16:43 -0500
        Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-20 09:54 +1200

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