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

[Forster, Michael]

KMA??

On Dec 28, 2011, at 7:25 PM, "AEF" <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
>> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
> 
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