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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/10/06 01:59
Day Brown wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 3:45 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> <a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote:
>> My question is why did you cross-post this thread to alt.community ?
> Nobody else uses it. There's lotsa dead usenet groups. If you crosspost
> all your own posts to one of them, then you get to see only those
> replies to your own posts.
That is not how you should use a NG. Filter on your own end. I have
corrected the follow up. Didn't notice it at first...
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> As for the issue at hand, the dude could use a paint program to make
> whatever he wants the reader to see, whatever fonts in whatever places.
> I do something like that on a website I'm putting together right now:
> http://www.dc-pc.org which uses a custom font that I designed along
> with color control that'd be really difficult, if possible, in html.
Horrid idea! Totally unreadable to a text only browser or screen
reader...(an in a graphic browser)
>
> You present the reader with a screenshot. If you need to have links on
> it, then have the screenshot as a backgound img.
>
> I've been online for over 20 years, and remember BBS forums with my
> first VGA in *text* mode. The qwkmail reader had a single line toolbar
> at the top, which let me & you have 49 lines of text to look at in a
Ah, but this is *not* a forum, but a newsgroup. Each posting is a
separate entity which may or may not be still accessible form the
server. You could conceivably replay to a message no long cached on the
server...
> message. This google window gives me about 20. sux. Another thing some
> BBS groups provided was ANSI color. Your words'd be say green, mine
> yellow, Johnathan's red, and so on. It was easy to see just who was
> saying what. Nobody bitched about being misquoted. it didnt fill up the
> screen with ">>>" and didnt need to wordwrap stubs. All that dos
> functionality was lost going to windoze gui interfaces.
>
You should quote responsibly, and trim out the bits not being commented on.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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