Posted by Day Brown on 12/10/06 01:40

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.

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.

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
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.

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