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

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On Dec 28, 5:03 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Yep, they live in their own little world. In some cases this is
understandable, but not here.

Or maybe it's the old "our way or the highway" that MS and Apple are
guilty of.

>
>    Thanks again, Ken

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