On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:11:10 +0000,
this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>Dave Frightens Me wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:41:03 +0100, Martin wrote:
>>=20
>> >On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:57:02 +0000, =
this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk
>> >(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
>> >deansgate) wrote:
>[]
>> >>I corrected it the one time, but next time, I'll just killfile the
>> >>poster. My time's far too precious to waste time correcting line =
lengths
>> >>and top-postings. I prefer wasting my time the way I want, not the =
way
>> >>someone else dictates! :)
>> >
>> >Says the man who asked everybody to adapt their line lengths to fit =
in with
>> >the limitations of his crappy news reader.
>>=20
>> Well, Martin, you did hastle me endlessly to modify my sig so it
>> worked on you machine.
So that it worked with all mail tools that recognise a sig. including
Dave's. In fact only Microsoft products don't recognise a sig.
Dave is a software developer he should know these things without help
from me.
>
>I'll point out that I asked politely that posters adapt their line
>lengths in line with what is suggested by the usenet netiquette FAQs. I
>also note that Martin changed his own newsreader from the default 70
>(which is a good length) to 80, because..., well in his words:
>
>"Yes. I set it to 80. It had been set to 70 by Agent, which is too short
>for most messages I receive."
You asked why Magda and I had long line lengths.
I had set it sometime BEFORE you asked not after.
I think you owe me an apology.
>
>Magda and Martin are the only posters I remember recently following up
>to with this problem, so I find the statement puzzling, but I'll leave
>the reader to figure out who is using the newsreader with limitations.
>
>Of course, the solution to this problem was simple.=20
Retrieve your posts and get the events in the right order.
--=20
Martin
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