SNIP
It's good to see some posts supporting Google (when it works). USW does
tend to get smug & superior when it gets to what S/W you use. It's got
to the stage when admitting you used Google risks bringing down the
wrath of the Gods.

If OE users don't put a divider between their replies and the googler's
post as Will does, the rest of us have to guess where one post ends and
another starts - or ignore the post altogether.

It seems that GG can't recognise correctly-formed signatures and
automatically remove them - or is their a setting in GG that users are
ignoring?

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell

Well, I don't seem to get either of those problems. Perhaps you should
change to Google?

From my perspective, I think the only real advantage in using a
newsreader is the ability to avoid posts you don't want to see. The
doesn't apply to me as if I'm going to look at USW I'd rather see the
whole deal, then disappear for a while when it all gets too much!
Otherwise using Google has many advantages over a conventional
newsreader. DBase2 was brilliant in it's time, in fact I still use a
DBase file structure for my weather system now, but for some reason
I've stopped using MsDOS. (In fact I programmed under Concurrent C/PM
in the '80s, before DOS took over).

I've avoided getting into this debate before, but one of the most
annoying aspects of USW is being told what to do by people who appear
to think they know best, not just on this subject, but many others.
This is absolutely my last word on it!

Graham
Penzance