DIYbanter - View Single Post - Meta: long-link test for your news reader

George

wrote:
On Feb 6, 9:49 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
George wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 2/5/2009 4:59 PM Stormin Mormon spake thus:
I think your news reading program needs help. It's been adding
spaces.
Where?
And speaking of needing help, could you *please* fix your setup so
that your posts come out properly? Your mail/news client (Microsoft
Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512) is really screwing them up; it puts
*everything* in the post below your reply into the sig, which means
that only your reply (above) gets quoted when you reply to one of
your postings.
Yes, same thing here. Aside from being the only top poster (I think)
who posts to this group which really breaks threads and readability
the posts are formatted as you describe.
You are ALSO posting via Thunderbird.

Are we seeing a trend here?

How about firing up OE on your machine to see if the same phenomenon
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Google Groups here. The long link is OK and I don't see any problem
with Stormin's post. Maybe time for someone to rethink which client
is brain damaged.

I just checked using Google groups and "Stormin Mormans" post is broken
there too just as David described.

I might suggest that OE is brain damaged because it defaults to top
posting for everything. Top posting makes sense for one to one
correspondence in email but it breaks the idea of threading which works
nicely in newsgroups. This is especially true in this group where 99.5%
of the posts are bottom posted. Its like one person on the interstate
deciding they would really like to drive north in the south bound lane.