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

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In article <9e7a3758-83c9-40e2-b119-5f8ad4ca0acc at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Dec 27, 9:11=A0pm, 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. =A0I *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. =A0It'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. =A0Someone will
>> > need to let me know (if you care) whether this is readable in a
>> > "real" news reader with fixed width fonts, etc. =A0If it is, I'll
>> > switch my FF addon editor to use Wordpad instead of Notepad.
>>
>> > =A0 =A0Thanks, 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.

This occurred with FF9.  Stupid.  Here's a fix:

about:config

browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled;false


I used to have bookmark available in FF in the URL window dropdown prior
to FF9.  I've not figured out how to restore those yet.

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