Re: Enter vs Return Key

In article <1177930378.981934.318820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
planb <sammac1967@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is Usenet;
formerly the exclusive domain of the literate and educated.

Since when ? It has been full of nuts, freaks and spelling and grammar
fascists ever since I've known it.

A lot of us remember the way it USED to be. The fast downhill slide
started when America Online started allowing newsgroup access, and it
hasn't been the same since. Sad.
.

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