Managing Google Groups headaches

[Alister]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:22:27 -0800, rusi wrote:

> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:20:39 PM UTC+5:30, Alister wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:08:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
>> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:04 AM, rusi  wrote:
>> >> Its really quite unclear to me why GG is a problem if all the
>> >> problems of GG are obviated.
>> > Which is easier, fiddling around with your setup so you can post
>> > reasonably on Google Groups, or just getting a better client? With
>> > your setup, you have to drop out to another editor and press F9 for
>> > it to work. With pretty much any other newsreader on the planet, this
>> > works straight off, no setup necessary.
>> > I'm still going to advise people to stop using buggy rubbish.
>> > ChrisA
> 
>> Whilst I agree with Chris A's main points I would at least say thankyou
>> for :-
> 
> Well thanks for the thanks :-)
> 
> 
>> A) finding a solution that works for you.
>> B) Posting it so that others can try it to see if it works for them.
> 
>> Perhaps the best option is for everybody to bombard Google with bug
>> reports (preferably typed with extra long lines & double spaced as that
>> is clearly what they are used to & we would not want to upset them
>> would we? )
> 
> If that has even a small likelihood of succeeding I heartily support it.
>  My impression is its been done with no result -- Usenet is too fringe
> and obsolete a technology for Google to bother.
> 
> On a different note your message has arrived 4 times.
> What client did you use?

I thought I had resolved that last week (using Pan under linux)



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