Sorry about that, Chief! I had set it to 72 in Mozilla, but "Moz" is now hung for some reason, so I switched back to NS & forgot.
But I must disagree on one point. It is *entirely* the recipient's program's responsibility to render Content in the font, language, colors, line length, etc. AS CORRESPONDS TO THE RECIPIENT'S PREFERENCE!!! How am I supposed to know how you like your text rendered?? Hmmmm?? Or did someone change the basic, fundamental idea of a standardized Markup Language while I was out cutting grass? BTW, why 72? Magic number? How about this: I'll set mine to 72 for you, but I want you to set yours to 34 for me. Not 35 or 47 or anything else but 34. Would that be okay, or are you starting to "get it" yet? FYI, we outgrew this problem *years* ago. Look it up. Start with "Adobe Type Manager" if TeX or Runoff is too hard. But we completely agree that it is MOST f***ing annoying! (I'm guessing some of the older folks reading this are starting to see where I'm heading with this. It's been a long time since people discussed this sort of issue as if it were new. Waxing nostalgic, I kinda miss those halcyon days!) Brian Heinrich wrote: > [snip]> > > BTW, Mr. Metzger... I am LOL at your indirect admission that Mozilla > > (or whatever NG reader you're using) won't wrap long lines for you, yet > > you insist I should "_trust_ Mozilla". (Do you "get it"? The burden of > > rendering Content should be on the Recipient, not the Sender! That's > > actually part of the Root Cause, but we'll get into that later. > > <ROTFLOL>) > [snip] > Would you *please* be so kind as to set your line length to something closer > to 72 cpi? > > F***, that's annoying. And if it's annoying me, I can /guarantee/ you it's > gonna annoy others. > > The problem is that the sender shouldn't be placing /any/ burden on the > recipient. My newsreader is rendering what you've sent; if you've sent > something with unreadably long lines, I have the choice of either scrolling > to read what you've written or just to ignore what you've written. [snip]
