Re: Ron Howard: Lensman?

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:33:47 -0500, Dan Dassow wrote
(in article
<07dd4c2b-52d9-4a0f-9807-b6ad1246e4da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On Jan 14, 7:39 am, Amy Guskin <aisl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey, William, completely unrelated question: do you happen to be posting
from
Google Groups?  I notice that my backquote in your reply was missing pointy
brackets, and I've been seeing complaints about that elsewhere in Usenet.  
People seem to think that Google Groups changed their interface and that
there's no preference to adjust in this regard.  It's making it REALLy hard
to read replies, especially on newsgroups where people fail to snip
adequately.  So, I'm just curious if Google _is_ to be blamed.


Dearest Amy,
I am not William, but I do read RASTB5.mod and post to USENET from
Google Groups. Google Groups does not produce pointy brackets (>>
quoted text <<), although it would not be hard to edit the text to
include this. Google Groups uses a leading right angle bracket (">")
to quote text. <<

Oh, I don't really care if it's a single bracket delimiter or pair of
brackets delimiter; it's just that _no_ brackets makes it hard to separate
backquoted text from new text, particularly where the responder hasn't
bothered to manually mark off the backquoted text. And it seems that I'm
seeing LOTS of responses that include backquotes as plain text, these days.
People on other newsgroups have been saying that they _think_ it's an
artifact of a change in the way Google Groups functions. I was just trying
to find out if that's correct (since I don't use Google Groups myself).

Thanks, Dan.

Amy
--
"In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over
again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George
W. Bush, May 24, 2005

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