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Article #21Re: OT: Cross Border Shopping, Deals and not so good deals.
From: Richard Bonner
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:05
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:05
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sharx35 (sharx35@hotmail.com) wrote: (Re: Setting Newsreader Line Length) : Those so-called "standards" were set back in the Stone Age. It is 2007 and high time to unleash HTML and : other improvements. Surely, you don't insist on watching all your TV in black and white? *** No, but that is not the point. Would you insist that film makers produce no black & white movies? There are groups for html, but this is a text newsgroup. It is not up to you to change its criteria. If one wants to join a text newsgroup, that is the way it is. I personally find html to be a nuisance when reading mail or news. It would be annoying if every newspaper article was in a different font type and size. Consistency is good in this case. I should add that another reason for the 76-or-under line length is to allow room for quote symbols in long threads. : BTW, I just installed QuoteFix. Does it make any difference? *** No, but you need not have bothered to do that. There is a setting in all newsreaders for line length. Richard
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