[Info-vax] Newsreaders, was (long ago): Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-12-27, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:13:13 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
>> On Dec 22, 2:55 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fa... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sorry for all the typos & wrong word errors in my last two 
>> > posts in spite of attempts to proof read beofre posting.  I *hate* 
>> > web text forms (I'm constrained...don't ask)!
>
>> Can you type your post in your favorite editor and then copy and paste
>> it to your awful web form? That's what i do.
>
> Yeah, I may be forced to do that.  It's really best to let the
> news reader (GG in this case) handle the reply so that text
> gets "quoted", etc.   
>
> This one I'm doing with cut and paste into Wordpad.  Someone will 
> need to let me know (if you care) whether this is readable in a
> "real" news reader with fixed width fonts, etc.  If it is, I'll
> switch my FF addon editor to use Wordpad instead of Notepad.
>
>    Thanks, Ken

I'm running SLRN in a xterm session.

The above is how I see your posting. As you can see it's perfectly
readable now.

When they last changed the interface, Google changed their newsgroup
software so that it no longer inserted line breaks every 70-80
characters.

I have no idea why they would do such a daft thing.

Simon.

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