Posting via Google Groups

[jim rosinski]

At first blush this seems totally off-topic. But it is definitely
on-topic in the sense that I only post to the rec.aviation.*
newsgroups, and the formatting of my posts in those newsgroups is
getting seriously mucked up when I use Google Groups to do it. Things
like not wrapping quoted text properly, not honoring blank lines when I
insert them, inserting blank lines when I don't want them, and
sometimes even moving new text up into quoted regions. Anyone else
experience this, and if so know how to get it to work properly? I never
experienced this problem before the latest update to Google Groups. The
really infuriating aspect to all this is that often the "mucked up"
nature of the formatting is only visible *after* being posted!
:
Jim Rosinski

[Philip Sondericker]

in article . com, jim
rosinski at wrote on 1/30/05 3:40 PM:

> At first blush this seems totally off-topic. But it is definitely
> on-topic in the sense that I only post to the rec.aviation.*
> newsgroups, and the formatting of my posts in those newsgroups is
> getting seriously mucked up when I use Google Groups to do it. Things
> like not wrapping quoted text properly, not honoring blank lines when I
> insert them, inserting blank lines when I don't want them, and
> sometimes even moving new text up into quoted regions. Anyone else
> experience this, and if so know how to get it to work properly? I never
> experienced this problem before the latest update to Google Groups. The
> really infuriating aspect to all this is that often the "mucked up"
> nature of the formatting is only visible *after* being posted!
> :
> Jim Rosinski

For the life of me, I cannot comprehend what Google was thinking with this
redesign. "Mucked up" describes it perfectly, though I would have begun the
word with an "F" myself.

[Larry Dighera]

On 30 Jan 2005 15:40:12 -0800, "jim rosinski" >
wrote in . com>::

>and if so know how to get it to work properly?

Perhaps reverting back to the original user interface will help:


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/06/1151213&tid=217&tid=95&tid=1
by AndrewRUK (543993) on Monday December 06, @09:28AM (#11007125)
If you don't like the new itnerface, just use it with a country
code domain rather than .com. I've checked the UK [google.co.uk],
Canadian [google.ca], French [google.fr], German [google.de], and
Australian [google.com.au] versions, and all have the classic
interface, rather than the new one.

[RST Engineering]

Outlook Express???

Jim


.. But it is definitely
> on-topic in the sense that I only post to the rec.aviation.*
> newsgroups, and the formatting of my posts in those newsgroups is
> getting seriously mucked up when I use Google Groups to do it.

[jim rosinski]

RST Engineering wrote:

> Outlook Express???

> . But it is definitely
> > on-topic in the sense that I only post to the rec.aviation.*
> > newsgroups, and the formatting of my posts in those newsgroups is
> > getting seriously mucked up when I use Google Groups to do it.

Two reasons this won't work for me. One, I'm running Linux not Windows
95% of the time; and two, the news service from my ISP (Qwest) is
****-poor.

Jim Rosinski

[Jack Allison]

Mozilla...IMHO, way better than Outlook express. It's free, works
great, and best of all, isn't a Microsoft product :-) www.mozilla.org


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student-Piper Arrow purchasing student
Mozilla convert

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

[Dave Butler]

Jack Allison wrote:
> Mozilla...IMHO, way better than Outlook express. It's free, works
> great, and best of all, isn't a Microsoft product :-) www.mozilla.org

or Agent http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

but this is posted with mozilla. Either one better than Outlook.

[Jürgen Exner]

jim rosinski wrote:
> At first blush this seems totally off-topic. But it is definitely
> on-topic in the sense that I only post to the rec.aviation.*
> newsgroups, and the formatting of my posts in those newsgroups is
> getting seriously mucked up when I use Google Groups to do it.
[...]

Well, DejaNews (aka Google) is a great archive for Usenet, but for reading
and posting news you may want to get an actual news reader.

jue