Re: Great SWT Program
On Dec 4, 7:14 am, blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com> wrote:
In article <30bb9576-0df6-4d22-a0ae-2ff9247de...@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
<bbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 1, 2:20 pm, blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com> wrote:
I don't have a convenient archive the way you do, and obviously I
can't just go browsing around Google's without clobbering my half-
written post by leaving the page with the input form. :P
Oh, this is too good! Isn't one of your complaints about my
preferred tools that they only let you do one thing at a time?
and now you're saying ....
That Google Groups sucks? Yeah. Too bad they more or less have a
monopoly on usenet access these days.
If "Usenet access" means "zero-cost Usenet access", yeah, maybe so.
Frankly, I have no idea what he's on about here; from looking at his
headers, I know he's posting via the same ISP I used when I lived in
Ottawa. That ISP has news servers available to its customers for no
(additional) charge, documented rather clearly in their online help.
There are also several good, free newsreaders available for any
platform you care to name... So the only reason I'm aware of to use
Google Groups in preference to a real news server is conscious choice.
I'm probably taking a
risk as it is getting around their broken posting limit the way I do.
Although it's more or less unavoidable -- their interface is so brain-
dead that it lets you blithely type in a potentially very long post
and only when you hit "submit", rather than as soon as you hit "reply"
to start composing, does it tell you you've exceeded their ludicrously-
low limit. Which means you lose the content of the post if you don't
post it, and the only way to post it is by switching login and
resubmitting. If you don't have an alternate login or don't do so, you
just leave it parked for hours in the web form input box, vulnerable.
If the power goes out or something before Google deigns to let you
post it, you're knackered.
And yet, although this clearly bothers you (and I can understand
why it would), you don't go to the additional trouble of composing
your posts in some other window, and then cutting and pasting
the text into their interface. Or doesn't that work either?
It works fine; it's how I write most posts when I'm using this
godsforsaken interface.