On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:46:32 EDT, Reel McKoi wrote:

I let it handle the wrapping. I don't hit enter at any point. It was
set
at
76
characters per line as it always was. I reset it to 60. I see Gareee's p
ost
is as messed up as mine, and was difficult to read.

72 characters goes back to the days of 80 character crts and allows
some quote characters before things get mucked up. I suspect the
moderation software (or something on that system) is chopping the lines
up to a hard 73 characters and not even attempting to find white space.

My word wrap here is set to 72 characters but my window is larger at 85
characters so the last word on my first line is 'quote' and the last
word on the first line of this paragraph is 'so'.

Your previous post (the one I am replying to) was chopped up also as it
still has the word wrap at 76 characters.

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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:56:27 EDT, "Rodney Pont"
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:46:32 EDT, Reel McKoi wrote:

I let it handle the wrapping. I don't hit enter at any point. It was
set
at
76
characters per line as it always was. I reset it to 60. I see Gareee's p
ost
is as messed up as mine, and was difficult to read.

72 characters goes back to the days of 80 character crts and allows
some quote characters before things get mucked up. I suspect the
moderation software (or something on that system) is chopping the lines
up to a hard 73 characters and not even attempting to find white space.

My word wrap here is set to 72 characters but my window is larger at 85
characters so the last word on my first line is 'quote' and the last
word on the first line of this paragraph is 'so'.

Your previous post (the one I am replying to) was chopped up also as it
still has the word wrap at 76 characters.

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. Now there are all kinds of
fonts and font sizes and variable character widths. All of this is
customizable by both the sender and receiver. What you send in
perfectly formatted form may look to my setup as just gibberish. This
would be bad enough by itself, but in the middle of all of this is a
program that takes whatever it is given, displays it so the moderators
can see it, and then sends it out again. It's kind of like that
"telephone" game, where the end word often bears little resemblance to
the beginning. What works for one may not be at all a solution for
another. I have no idea what the fix is or even if it can be fixed.

Galen Hekhuis

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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