Re: The Dacrons do Florida! (in flash)

Yes, I have been "netkopped" indeed. Plain text is in fact archaic and one
has to ask the question at what point do we stop doing what is archaic and
start doing things a new way. At some point people *had* to stop riding
horses and get a car whether they liked it or not. That said, perhaps now
is not quite the time that newsgroups should expect people to use HTML (i.e.
cars) rather than the other way around (i.e. horses). So, I shall concede
that point (for now).

Regarding posting to the end or beginning of posts, I personally *hate*
having to scroll and weed through stuff I've already read to get to the new
part. Bottom posting is for some reason quite prevalent out here so I will
concede that point as well (for now). If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Regarding Frank's statement about "hitting the return key every 70
characters or so" seems to me to be a complaint for complaint's sake. Frank
may be technically correct but from a practical point of view, it's a
meaningless observation because my paragraph wasn't *that* long that anyone
needs to point it out. It's not like I posted a tome without breaking for
paragraphs. If Frank is going raise an issue on something that minor, I'd
suspect to be fair he would have to be spending many hours a day (which he
is not) posting to a *lot* of other posters about their writing style. Me
suspects I was singled out for other reasons.

At the end of the day there is always the Dacron's sense of humor to fall
back on when my poor bedraggled newsgroup ego has been "netkopped." :)




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I just watched the Flash tour of your 5th wheel. I just don't know where
to begin my comments on that. For starters, the two of you are genuinely
funny as hell. And you figured out how to put in a picture of Ren in with
all that. Priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard. But I
digress. The scary thing is that the quality of what you did boarders on
being professional. The creativity displayed is near genius. Comedic
timing reminds me of Car Talk on NPR. I've seen lots of neat websites
over the years of people who RV but yours is the that flat out winner. I
encourage anybody who loves to RV *and* has an edgy/quirky sense of humor
to watch this stuff. Solid entertainment. Well, I'm now going to watch
the rest of your Flash presentations. Oh Dacrons, I bow in humble
deference to your wit. I'm amazed (and grateful) to know people like you
exist in this world.


Since you got netkopped about your posting style, here are the
suggestions. That's all they are. It is a free country and you can do as
you wish.

It IS recommended that one posts to USENET only in ascii. Some servers
will dump HTML or binary messages in text only newsgroups.

In OE do the following:

1. Choose Tools, Options.
2. Click on the Send Tab.
3. At the bottom of the window choose Plain Text for News Sending Option.
4. Click on the Plain Text Settings Button and choose "Automatically wrap
text at..." Choose 76 or less characters.

It also is recommended to not top post. Again, your choice.

Bottom posting is an artifact from the REALLY old days of ARPANET that
carried over to today. Early readers would just display the message file
with no formatting. Additionally, when replying, messaging software could
only append new data to the end of the file.

Of course, it is now just a societal convention. Everyone insists because
everyone insists. Many efficiency studies have shown that appending
replies to the top of an electonic message make reading more efficient.
It's similar to the way that the Government and Military treat replies to
written memos. They are stapled to the top of the stack.

Other views WILL vary.
--
Dave Thompson




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