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    From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn@PointedEars@web.de to sci.physics.relativity,news.software.readers on Thu Jan 8 16:03:37 2026
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    J. J. Lodder wrote:
    Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
    J. J. Lodder wrote:
    Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
    J. J. Lodder wrote:
    Math formulas on usenet should be rendered in ASCII, and nothing
    but ASCII, using some kind of quasi-TeX.
    LOL. Welcome to the 21st century!
    FYI, Usenet is not from the 21st century.

    That does not mean that we have to remain in the stone age in order to
    use it. In fact, it had been decided by the IETF long ago that that
    should not be so; therefore, by 2009, new standards for Network News
    had been developed, agreed upon, and already implemented by server and
    user agent developers to facilitate that. You are simply out of
    touch, and if the cause of the incompatibility is your newsreader (it
    *is*), it is not simply out of date and obsolete, but *non-compliant*,
    i.e. *broken*.

    These 'improvements' are fundamentally flawed, so they were not
    generally adopted.

    False.

    Even now, after all those years, you can still see the occasional
    mangled header.

    By people like you who are using *broken* software.

    (It is well-known in today's Usenet that MacSOUP is broken as it was
    never updated after 2016, and was buggy even back then.)

    MacSoup was never broken. Its author could not afford the time that
    would be required to rewrite it for later versions of Mac OSX.

    JFTR:

    ,-<http://www.haller-berlin.de/macsoup/>
    |
    | MacSOUP
    |
    | MacSOUP was an NNTP newsreader for Mac that I developed in the nineties.
    | It is obsolete and no longer available.
    |
    | Stefan Haller
    | Berlin, Germany
    | <stefan@haller-berlin.de>

    Linked to from <https://usenet-abc.de/wiki/Team/MacSOUP>, which also
    explains the flaws of MacSOUP, and the hoops that one has to to jump through for it to conform to some (not all) basic NetNews standards (found with a Google Web search for "MacSOUP broken").
    --
    PointedEars

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