Roger Long wrote:
:"Matt O'Toole" wrote

:Also, sorry to be a pain, but your last two wonderful messages were
:almost unreadable with a text-only newsreader. There were no line breaks,
:so I had to scroll horizontally. Outlook Express is famous for such
:problems. I recommend turning HTML off and posting text-only, plus maybe
:using an add-on like OE-Quotefix. Or changing newsreaders.



:Sorry, I didn't realize, and wonder why, anyone would still be using a plain
:text only reader. Seems like those who want to cling to the Gutenburg age
:should perhaps make the adjustement instead of everyone else posing to the
:lowest technology denominator.

USENET is a text-only medium. Keeping it so keeps it efficient; using
a text-only newsreader, I can keep up with groups with much less work
and expenditure of time.

If you want flashy crap, go somewhere else. There are plenty of
mostly worthless web fora that will allow you to have flashing text
and animated smileys.


:I appreciate being able to click on links
rovided in these posts and you can't do that in plain text. Isn't there
:something you can click to force word wrap?

Being able to click on links is a function of the newsreader software,
or perhaps the terminal emulator software.