Re: [Pan-users] Re: Trouble with Pan and news.grc.com

[Per Hedeland]

Beartooth <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:13:48 +0100, Per Hedeland wrote:
>
>> Beartooth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>!> Warning: The posting profile's server doesn't carry newsgroup !>  "
>>>grc.techtalk".
>> 
>> I guess that's absolutely verbatim, including the "weird" space between
>> the opening quote and 'grc'?
>
>       Dunno, due to formatting -- when it left here, each "!" began a 
>line; so it was not apparent whether there was an extra space. You have 
>sharp eyes.

So it was in the message I received, and in the response I sent, which
had the lines (clipped and separated here in an attempt to avoid renewed
mangling):

>!> Warning: The posting profile's server [...]

>!>     " grc.techtalk".

Who is the culprit behind the gratuitous re-formatting above (also
present in Duncan's reply) - gmane? Or Pan?:-)

>       Oho! Shades of the GPO! Back when I began cataloging books into 
>the Library of Congress, and it still printed literally thousands of 
>copies of every card, the formatting for the printers at the GPO was 
>coded into the spacing. If you got one too many or too few, every copy of 
>the card turned into gibberish from there down...
>
>       I thank you, SIR, and offer a sweeping bow to your exemplary 
>perspicacity. Thanks again!

Gee, I had to lookup both GPO (Government Printing Office?) and
perspicacity...:-)

--Per