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Re: Amiga/Unix Windowing

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From: David S. Masterson
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 00:55
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>>>>> On 7 Jan 91 17:52:14 GMT, kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop) said:

Kevin> Sidenote: Please, please, please, break your paragraphs up into lines
Kevin> rather than writing your entire paragraph as one line - it makes my
Kevin> mail reader CRAZY.

I have seen this a lot on a number of newsgroups and wish it didn't occur.
I've suspected that this happens because people are using some word processor
(which typically treat carriage return as the end of a paragraph) to write
their responses to news messages.  Is this true?
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Subject: Re: Amiga/Unix Windowing
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