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

[AEF]

On Dec 27, 9:11 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2011-12-27, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... 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'm still using their old one.

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

It's WTICBIRD disease. (We think it's cool, but it's really doofy [or
dumb] disease.)

Microsoft is full of stuff like this. Microsoft Bob, paper clip guy,
and so on. Oh, and that stupid drumsticks on a drum while you're
waiting for something to happen. Talk about lame!

Even Apple is guilty.

Think of Firefox having the oozing tabs. And it's font control panel.
What a nightmare! And making addresses grayed out except for the
domain name. Yes, just what I need: a near impossible to read URL.

BTW, I once heard that there's a radio station called KMA. . . . I
just checked: There is!

AEF

>
> Simon.
>
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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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