Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Apr 12 2019 02:55 pm

Hello mark,

12 Apr 19 09:18 at you wrote to Ozz Nixon:

 ml> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used for
 ml> but why do i want to display a message artifically restricted to
 ml> 80cols on my 125 character wide terminal? why can't it just be
 ml> displayed out to 125 instead of squashed to the left? that's like in
 ml> one of the mailing lists i/we read, someone is apparently using a
 ml> mobile device at times because their posts are all squashed left into
 ml> 40cols or less... that's just rediculous... i don't care if they only
 ml> have 40cols to read/write but don't force that shite on me and my
 ml> terminal...

I don't know about you but I don't think a Fidonet message should be telling 
my message reader how to behave when it comes to my display.  Like you, I have 
a wide display (I'm logged into a regular console window).  I prefer having a 
smaller font to fit more on the screen...well, as long as I have my reading 
glasses on. :)

Methinks people are overcomplicating things.

Later,
Sean

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