Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

[David Robinow]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My
>> hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP
>> with an HTML <p>, and then on outgoing replacing the <p> with a pair of
>> NNTP line endings. In contrast, text composed on Google is coming in as
>> long single lines (since quoting said text in a response produces on a
>> ">" at the start of the paragraph.
>
> Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't
> they just use a proper newsreader?
I haven't used a newsreader in over a decade. I'm quite happy with a
mailing list. Am I missing something?