On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:54 -0700, Bob Dobbs wrote:
Mark-in-the-Dark wrote:
P.S. I'm no longer letting my posts show up on Google Groups.
That makes it much harder for Marky to interfere with my posts.

Thanks to DeLorean, I now know a trick to play with my headers
that keeps Google from showing my posts at all. X-No-Archive
is not needed.

I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in your header,
what did you do?
...and my news server doesn't distribute to,
nor spool from google,
so I don't even see any of their crap in the first place.

Well, I did see the post of yours that I quoted on Google, so I'm not
sure that a quote of this post won't show up there too. Please cut out
the next paragraphs if you quote me.

Nevertheless I'll tell you: Google is sensitive to the format of the
Message-ID header. If the part of the string which contains "@" is
changed to either ".@" or "@.", Google won't show the post. Many
popular news readers don't even generate a Message-ID header any longer,
so it's a little difficult to get them to do what you want. In a pinch,
you can choose to postpone a post, exit the news reader, and then edit
the file which contains the postponed post to add a gimmicked Message-ID
header. I think that's too much trouble, though.

I use slrn instead, because it gives its user full control over all
headers.

I'm pretty sure that the oddness I've discovered is due to a bug in
Google's software. If someone there discovers the bug, then they'll
probably fix it and the fun will go away.