lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (Chris Lishka (King Arthur's roommate) ) (02/18/90)
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <10183@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >> Probably a better place to address this is in the Usenet news readers. >> There is no good reason why they shouldn't be able to wrap lines >> intelligently while showing you a message. >These days everyone's got 80 >column terminals, even on 8-bitters, so perhaps it's time to quit catering >to old hardware on *both* sides. I disagree. These days some people (like myself) read news on workstations with windows. I can read news in a 1x1 or 150x150 (with a tiny font) window. I would think that 80-column terminals are now becoming "old technology." If line-wrap in news-readers is an issue, then it should be added AS AN OPTION (hell, they have enough already ;^). But do not make it enforced! >No, the right way to fix this problem is in the gateway. Keep Usenet >conventions on the UNIX side, and Fido conventions on the Fido side. I agree. If two networks with slightly incompatible formats are to be joined, then the gateway between the machines should be responsible for converting between the two formats. Conversion from FIDO-format to USENET-format should be easy. The other direction shouldn't be *that* much harder for *most* articles. .oO Chris Oo. -- Christopher Lishka 608-262-4485 "Somebody said to me, `But the Beatles were Wisconsin State Lab. of Hygiene antimaterialistic.' That's a huge myth. John lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu and I literally used to sit down and say `Now, uunet!uwvax!uwslh!lishka let's write a swimming pool'."--Paul McCartney