[OT} Re: Newsgroup

From: John Miller (me2_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:10:02 GMT

Mike Coon wrote:
> Now even text-only devices can surely use proportional fonts so a fixed
> character width for line breaks doesn't make so much sense as it once did.

Quite right, however, a more readable (narrower) column width makes lots
of sense.

Actually, in a perfect world, folks could write an entire paragraph with
no breaks, and leave it up to the reader device (hdw or sfw) to sort it
out. Regrettably, we ain't there yet... 

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