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When I try to read googlegroups the text in the posts is running into
the ads on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone know what would
cause this? I tried Groups help but no luck.

What browser? I have had that problem with Firefox on other sites, but
not google.

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|>When I try to read googlegroups the text in the posts is running into
|>the ads on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone know what would
|>cause this? I tried Groups help but no luck.

Three options, Reduce your fonts, Disable Java, or use FireFox and
Greasemonkey (find a script that removes the ads).
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

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On 2005-10-23, <> wrote:
> When I try to read googlegroups the text in the posts is running into
> the ads on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone know what would
> cause this? I tried Groups help but no luck.

Have you set Firefox to enlarge the text on web pages? Opera has a better
approach, as it 'zooms' the whole page not merely the text (and you can
easily turn off 'javascript' and 'images' and 'plugins' for normal
browsing, which can save a lot of time and garbage - including some
adverts; other adverts can be blocked too).

The Google Groups interface is about the worst possible way to access
newsgroups. Your ISP should provide an NNTP "news-server" as part of the
contract, but if they don't you can find several by doing a web-search.
Mostly they now require payment. The one I use costs 10 Euros per year and
you can read about it at <http://www.individual.net/>.

There is a newsgroup alt.free.newsservers for discussing the now sadly rare
and erratic free news-servers.

Thunderbird, the e-mail companion to Firefox, can handle newsgroups as well
as e-mail. There are many dedicated news-reader programs, and you can find
links and other information here <http://www.newsreaders.com/>.

See also the newsgroup news.software.readers

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> When I try to read googlegroups the text in the posts is running
> into the ads on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone
> know what would cause this? I tried Groups help but no luck.

What causes this is using a browser to read newsgroups when you should be
using a newsreader.

wrote:
> What browser? I have had that problem with Firefox on other sites, but
> not google.

I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 but haveing the same thing happen with IE6.

Trax wrote:
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Three options, Reduce your fonts, Disable Java, or use FireFox and
> Greasemonkey (find a script that removes the ads).
> http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Thanks for the suggestions.........reducing fonts did the trick but
I'll have to sit a bit closer to the monitor now LOL!
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> On 2005-10-23, <> wrote:
>> When I try to read googlegroups the text in the posts is running into
>> the ads on the right hand side of the page. Does anyone know what would
>> cause this? I tried Groups help but no luck.
>
> Have you set Firefox to enlarge the text on web pages? Opera has a better
> approach, as it 'zooms' the whole page not merely the text (and you can
> easily turn off 'javascript' and 'images' and 'plugins' for normal
> browsing, which can save a lot of time and garbage - including some
> adverts; other adverts can be blocked too).
>
> The Google Groups interface is about the worst possible way to access
> newsgroups. Your ISP should provide an NNTP "news-server" as part of the
> contract, but if they don't you can find several by doing a web-search.
> Mostly they now require payment. The one I use costs 10 Euros per year
> and
> you can read about it at <http://www.individual.net/>.
>
> There is a newsgroup alt.free.newsservers for discussing the now sadly
> rare
> and erratic free news-servers.
>
> Thunderbird, the e-mail companion to Firefox, can handle newsgroups as
> well
> as e-mail. There are many dedicated news-reader programs, and you can
> find
> links and other information here <http://www.newsreaders.com/>.
>
> See also the newsgroup news.software.readers
>
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> -- ^^^^^^^^^^
> -- Whiskers
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