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

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:11:14 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> 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.
> 

To encourage you to use a browser to read it?  Something I noticed a few 
months ago was that groups.google refused to let you search newsgroups if 
you weren't logged in to one of their services (Gmail in my case).  I 
assume they do that via cookies, so I set aside a browser just for Gmail 
use and cleared the Google cookies from my usual browser.


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Paul Sture