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**John Griffin**

BradGuth wrote:

On Sep 20, 10:30 am, BradGuth wrote:
On Sep 20, 10:04 am, John Griffin
wrote:

Now that you've let me know that I'm a Rabbi, do I need
some sort of weird threads like the Cattle-like church
makes its officials wear while delivering their hocus-pocus
stuff to the herds?

Removing ?hl=en&lnk=rgh will get your GOOGLE Usenet back to
normal

This is exactly what those pesky MIB spooks and moles did to
Usenet as of lately, by adding "?hl=en&lnk=rgh" to the end of
a given GOOGLE Usenet page is what keeps one of their "Sort
by date" features from functioning, of which makes it all
that more difficult for us few and far between honest folks
to reply on behalf of those most recent contributions to our
topics. No wonder that I've been missing out on so many of
those topic contributors.

This is where I'd need-to-know learned of this supposed bug,
that's not really a bug if you know what I mean.

Google Groups Guide /
Aha! Bug identified! Try
this:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/topics?hl=en
This gives the sci.math topic list. Bug exists in all threads
you see.
If you click on any of the groups in "related groups", these
groups also have the bad behavior.

Now try this:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/topics
I.e., the same link as above, but with the "hl=en" attribute
removed from the URL. The problem goes away; and also goes
away from of the groups you jump to via "related groups".

My Guess: This attribute used to be always present in URLs
from Google, but at some point it was only added if the
referring URL included it. Now it causes buggy behavior.

The Fix: Remove the "?hl=en" attribute from your all
shortcuts. (Or other similar attribute if your native
language is not english).

Cheers - Chas

"?hl=en?scoring=d&hl=en"

"so just removing all this garbage fixes the problem." or
simply removing as little as anything that comes after the
basic topic ID from a given GOOGLE Usenet page, or from
whatever reply you're in the process of contributing, is also
good to go. - Brad Guth -

BTW, it's taking some effort in order to keep ahead of all the
Usenet spermware/****ware gauntlet, as I'm fairly certain
they'll find other nastier ways of keeping this public channel
as off-tilt and/or as robo- skewed as they can muster.
- Brad Guth -

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