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Article #6939Re: Line wrap?
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 12:44
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 12:44
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In article <10183@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> Probably a better place to address this is in the Usenet news readers.
> There is no good reason why they shouldn't be able to wrap lines
> intelligently while showing you a message.
What makes you think we *want* to change our software? My own experience
with message systems like Fido and Opus and TBBS that do smart wrapping is
that it's more of a pain than it's worth. These days everyone's got 80
column terminals, even on 8-bitters, so perhaps it's time to quit catering
to old hardware on *both* sides.
And it's not just the newsreaders. There's all the text editors, and so on.
No, the right way to fix this problem is in the gateway. Keep Usenet
conventions on the UNIX side, and Fido conventions on the Fido side.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b,fido.ufgate Subject: Re: Line wrap? Message-ID: <ZOP1D9Fxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 12 Feb 90 12:44:33 GMT References: <2933.25D60BEC@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <10183@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14