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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2011-12-29 12:56:
> 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.

FF8. Including the fix below.

> 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.
>