Re: The Voice of Sauron

In message <news:MPG.1d97d888fdfd18299897e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stan
Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched us with:
>

<snip>

> WIBNI

???

Would It Be ??

> I swear, I'm _this_ close to just filtering out everything posted
> from Google Groups.

They're making it easy for you -- kill 'User-Agent: G2/0.2' ;-)

In all fairness, the rotten interface they've made is a big part of it.

If one just hits the 'Reply' link, then Google helps you along by not
quoting anything (making this essentially a 'no-no' on regular usenet
groups such as AFT and RABT). In order to quote the context you have to
hit the 'Show Options' first, and then the 'Reply' link that appears
above the message to the left (subsidiarily you can click 'Preview
Message' at once, and then 'Edit' in order to quote the previous
message).

I swear, I've had the same urge that you have, if nothing else, then in
order to show Google just how <strong expletive> their current
interface is, and just how useless it is on usenet. But, since it isn't
really the poor people's fault, I haven't done it.

--
Troels Forchhammer
Valid e-mail is <t.forch(a)email.dk>

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
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