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

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:11:14 PM UTC-8, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2011-12-27, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fa... at gmail.com> wrote:
[...snip...]
> > 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.

Great, thanks for the confirmation!  And similar thanks
to Paul Sture for his confirmation as well.

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

Yeah, that one caught em.

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

They think all the world's a browser displaying html, sigh...

   Thanks again, Ken