Tks - will try the Groundhog -

Paul C

I used to use Outlook Express till it vanished in Windows 7
It didn't vanish and I'm using it now. All that happened is that under Vista
Microsoft moved it to be part of Windows Live and that's still the case
today in Windows 7.

It's much the same as ever (albeit sporting a Ribbon now), with the sole
exception that it no longer puts a "" in front of quoted text. I guess
whoever was responsible for that bit of code was a top-poster! :P

I used to use Outlook Express till it vanished in Windows 7
It didn't vanish and I'm using it now. All that happened is that under Vista
Microsoft moved it to be part of Windows Live and that's still the case
today in Windows 7.

It's much the same as ever (albeit sporting a Ribbon now), with the sole
exception that it no longer puts a "" in front of quoted text. I guess
whoever was responsible for that bit of code was a top-poster! :P

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:28:09 -0700, Graham Easterling wrote:

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 the bugs in Google Groups only affected the users, I wouldn't give a
tinker's cuss what people used. Unfortunately, everyone else is affected
by GG's little peculiarities.

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?

If objecting to these faults in GG means I'm smug, then so be it. Anyway,
I don't get superior, I just am.


--
Graham Davis, Bracknell
Whilst it's true that money can't buy you happiness, at least you can
be miserable in comfort.
Newsreader for Windows, Mac, Unix family: http://pan.rebelbase.com/

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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

In article , says...


It's much the same as ever


Does it still have the double-post problem?


--
Alan LeHun

"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Cannot quote google groups user properly, hence the ====== separator.

At least you have a backup now Tudor!

I personally detest the google or other web interface, but then I'm an old
fashioned text-based UseNetty computer geek :-)

Just Google for a little program called 'Quote Fix'.
This will sort your quoting issues when replying to Google Groups users.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Does it still have the double-post problem?
Doesn't seem to!

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:51:26 -0700, Graham Easterling wrote:

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?

You typed your response immediately below an example of the problem which
you claim not to see. At least you removed part of my sig by hand, for
which I thank you. However, any half-decent newsreader would have done it
for you.


--
Graham Davis, Bracknell
Whilst it's true that money can't buy you happiness, at least you can
be miserable in comfort.
Newsreader for Windows, Mac, Unix family: http://pan.rebelbase.com/

"Col" wrote in message
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Cannot quote google groups user properly, hence the ====== separator.

At least you have a backup now Tudor!

I personally detest the google or other web interface, but then I'm an
old fashioned text-based UseNetty computer geek :-)

Just Google for a little program called 'Quote Fix'.
This will sort your quoting issues when replying to Google Groups users.

I used to use quote fix but it no longer works with windows mail newsreader.

Will
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