Re: List of Big Eight Newsgroups

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

mccomb@medieval.org (Todd M. McComb) writes:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Even with the line breaks?  For instance:
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

comp.compression.research Discussions about data compression
research. (Moderated)

--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

That line break should not be there.  It is not part of the master
checkgroups file.  I'm not sure where it is being introduced....

Any chance that it's

 X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010)

doing it?  I never used trn.  If it's not yours newsreader or text
editor, then it must the NNTP server.  Or is it me somehow?

There is no chance whatsoever that it's trn. trn doesn't have a built-in
text editor. The user chooses which text editor is called in the
composer. Composer input is a minimal set of headers for a root article
or minimal headers plus quote for a followup. trn performs minimal sanity
checks on composer output to verify the presense of required headers. Then
there is another process that prepares the proto article for injection,
which does minimal parsing and checks again for minimal required headers.

trn does as little as possible. With trn, it's literally the
responsibility of the user to write an article that complies with
standards and to prepare an article in a conventional output.

If the user cannot and will not be responsible for writing a
conventional article, then use another newsreader.

Perhaps you might familiarize yourself with the newsreader before
commenting.