On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 7:26:43 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 12:47:14 PM UTC-10, graham wrote:
> > On 2017-04-16 4:43 PM, wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 2:11:29 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >>> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 8:49:38 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> > >>>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:45:50 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi10yahoo.com>
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 8:50:38 AM UTC-10, wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:50:33 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> > >>>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> You should also wonder why people would use an ancient Windows client program to post to newsgroups. OTOH, I might use a cast iron pan to fry up some chicken or sear ahi. The shape is better for chicken frying (steeper sides) and it works great for searing ahi or a steak.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> coming from a person using goggle! Gary is using a reasonale patient
> > >>>>>> spider, aka September programme and I use Agent - now if you used
> > >>>>>> something that knew how to line wrap correctly - that would be
> > >>>>>> interesting!
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I have a couple of NTTP server accounts too. I don't use it much these days because I mostly use a Chromebook. There's not much point in using an NNTP app with the Chromebook since Google Groups works so well.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> No, it doesn't. Your posts look like crap.
> > >>>
> > >>> His posts look like crap, and I use Google Groups.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cindy Hamilton
> > >>
> > >> Let me know what you find objectionable and I shall try to accommodate you. My guess is that what you really don't like is what I'm saying and not what my posts "look" like.
> > >
> > > line wrapping, usually i don't bother opening your posts they are just
> > > a single line running from left to right, waaaay off the page.
> > >
> > For some screwy reason, some of my posts word wrap and others go way off
> > to the right.
> > Damned if I know which button to push to wrap all the time.
>
> Thunderbird and other readers expects to see formatted lines in quotes. Google Groups does not do this in quoted text. I don't mind if GG does not casually add forced formatting where there is none. Some folks see it as an insurmountable problem. Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not one of those guys.

The other issue is, it is much more difficult to read a very long line
of text. The eye gets lost on the long journey to the right. Page
layout is something that publishers have done a lot of work on.

I have my Firefox window maximized and your single line wandered and
wandered until I got bored looking for the end.

Cindy Hamilton