JRS: In article , dated
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:16:36, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Jason
posted :
On 10 Dec 2004 07:39:40 -0800, wrote:

I bet that there was a lot of them. More cost effective to bus the
dozen or passengers I would have thought.

What on earth is this a reply to?

Learn to quote from the original message if you must make such
profound insights...


He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

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"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...
He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

HE is (see the headers). Outlook express has done this for years, sadly it's
the only usenet client approved for use here at work and takes a mighty
effort to fix it for every reply. At least I remember to snip irellevent
problems.

Of course Jason's newsreader should thread the messages accordingly, where
it's easy to see the original post.

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Paul Weaver wrote:

He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

HE is (see the headers). Outlook express has done this for years,
sadly it's the only usenet client approved for use here at work and
takes a mighty effort to fix it for every reply.

If you apply the OE-Quotefix patch, the problem goes away

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:38:44 +0000, Stimpy wrote:

Paul Weaver wrote:

He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

HE is (see the headers). Outlook express has done this for years,
sadly it's the only usenet client approved for use here at work and
takes a mighty effort to fix it for every reply.

If you apply the OE-Quotefix patch, the problem goes away

Ahh, but that would break the Computer Use policies. While I'll "bend"
them enough to be able to do my job (i.e. vnc, putty, mozilla etc), I
don't think modifiying a usenet client would qualify . If it would, I'd
install a decent client.

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