rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Saturday, October 26, 2013 8:10:16 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Do you really intend to say that we have no right to complain about > > how difficult Google Groups makes it for us? > > I think you are mixing up cause and effect, symptom and disease, Steven. > > The symptoms are > 1. Double spaced responses > 2. Non/improper attribution
Both of which are Google Groups failing to implement established standard interfaces. > The 'disease' is: > > Google-groups is current technology Google Groups attempts to interface with standard protocols of communication, and gets it wrong. Google are well-informed of the ways in which Google Groups is misbehaving, and they are disinclined to fix the misbehaviour. > whereas newsgroups/feeds etc is pre-www technology. So what? Much of the internet is pre-WWW, too. That doesn't excuse the misbehaviour of software which purports to interface with standard protocols but gets them wrong. To the extent that the mis-implementation of Google Groups makes messages from there more difficult to read, its users should be agitating for Google to fix the service, and/or switching to software which conforms to standards better. -- \ “Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the | `\ hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily.” —hotel, Athens | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list