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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2011-12-29 13:38:
> 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.
>

Just upgraded from 8.0 to 9.0.1 and the fix still works (of course)...


>> 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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