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   Jim Higgins to markus.humm1@freenet.de   
   Re: Getting a real number from the keybo   
   29 May 05 15:25:59   
   
   From: me7@privacy.net   
      
   On Sun, 29 May 2005 11:02:02 +0200, in   
   <4299a5f2$0$24833$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de>, Markus Humm   
    wrote:   
      
   >By the way: you should use fixd width fonts in newsgroups.   
   >Your newsreader surely can set up in such a way that he does (e.g. use   
   >Courier). HTML posts are normally not wanted either. I don't mind HTML   
   >posts, but they mostly needn't be and othe rpeople here object them.   
      
   John's problem is that he hasn't bothered to set up his Outlook   
   Express to word wrap to the Usenet convention of 72 or so   
   characters.   
      
   IMHO, HTML has no place on Usenet unless in a group that depends   
   on it or wants it.  Doesn't Mozilla have a switch to turn it off?   
      
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