Re: This is a test

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 9:36:08 PM UTC, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art.animation,
> colin randall <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > hi ... sorry folks but its gotta be done ... 
> > i'm just plumbing the depths of google's cluelessness
> I'm not reading on Google and it came through fine.
[snip]
> > .
> The top is easier to read on my screen, but I can see the letters in the 
> bottom one, too. 
> 
> Elijah 
> ------ 
> long time since there has been a post in this group
hi ... thanks for the info
the bottom one is readable if i set firefox to disallow pages to set
their own fonts ... the top one is "smushed" tho'
i have updated the FAQ to reflect this as follows:
[part of Q.5 : which font use?]
    Using Google-Groups from a web-browser => F O R G E T  I T!
    Google-Groups forces users to use a browser-app to view postings
    but then serves-up the posts as an 'html-blob' having pre-processed
    the messages using a library called 'XML XSLT' <xsl:strip-space>
    which changes all white-space content.
    A whitespace character can be any of: space character, tab,
      carriage return, new line, vertical tab, form feed.
    Carriage return characters are replaced with <br> elements.
    All mulitple space characters are compressed to one space so all
    preformatted text is  C O M P L E T E L Y   T R A S H E D !
    This renders Google-Groups useless for ascii-art so to be safe
    boycot Google-Groups.
[part end]
however ... i still post the FAQ thru' them due to its size at 55k
a bit of a heavy-weight
i'm considering revising or removing Q.20 m$.outlook-express settings
since it is now depreciated (dead) product
-- 
cjr