Galen Hekhuis wrote:
The days of 72(80) characters and 24 (25) lines are long gone. Back
then, a character was a character and there was only one built in font
and size was fixed and we were happy.


This is true, but you must remember that Usenet is designed to function
on those card reader type machines (ok, crt's).

Which is why (just one reason) that web-based VBulletin boards have
exploded while Usenet group usage has diminished (at least as a percentage).

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"Usenet really is all about standing around and hitting the ground
with clubs, on a spot where many years earlier a dead horse lay."