Re: The Dacrons do Florida! (in flash)

Jimbo wrote:

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." :)




"Dave Thompson" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:-_idnVBJS8fqp3veRVn-uw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Jimbo" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9XoFf.27201$F_3.23772@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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.
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Dave Thompson





Go in and reset your wrap character count. It will do all the limiting of the length of the line you want to. I just moved mine from 72 back to 60 making each line much shorter than it was before.
Edit / Preferences / Composition / Wrap plain text messages at XXX characters

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