[DeTomaso] forgot two forum gripes

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/15/08 19 15 42, LaurieFerrari at aol.com writes:


> 
> Oh I forgot to mention that I do have  a couple forum gripes.. .those being
> the posts that are yards long and  don't scroll to the next line, causing an
> aching neck.... and those posts that  start out with a zillion meaningless
> letters:
> like AAPPCOEOOORNOOOYYEIONLKN:JHOIUPOIUPOIPOIUOI
> then the post... but by that time I'm too tired to read  it.
> 

Both of those problems are your fault.   Or rather, the fault of your e-mail 
program.   If you are using proper stand-alone AOL instead of the web-based 
version, posts come through looking perfectly fine, with just plain text.   I 
remember many years ago I viewed the forum from a desk job (the horror!!!) using 
Hotmail, and occasionally a post would appear with no line breaks, and you 
would have to scroll horizontally for a week to read each line.   I was 
eventually fed up enough to get clever, and to go to the 'preferences' section of the 
Hotmail website, where I was able to set a maximum line length, I think of 80 
characters.   That forced the text to wrap properly and I lived happily ever 
after (well, that is, after I got out from behind the desk, back into the 
cockpit and never looked back!)

Mike


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