Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jeff Layman Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox Subject: Re: Current profile [OT] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:14:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <591b5a589bdave@triffid.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:14:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="7533"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2TXAf+nMshQpUMzXwO9ArH17kXs= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLoyRA5fAU/xJ2RzWxdhgNXO61OqAPRBsDBN6meLI8q9Tv6S9CXs4JJ/cHEgEQ2Q== Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:233 On 15/04/2021 01:00, Jeff Barnett wrote: > On 4/14/2021 4:00 PM, Dave Royal wrote: >> On 14 Apr 2021 15:10:12 -0600 Jeff Barnett wrote: >>> [On 4/14/2021 2:52 PM, Ken Blake wrote:] >>>> On 4/14/2021 1:43 PM, WaltS48 wrote: >>>>> On 4/14/21 1:26 PM, s|b wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:21:06 -0400, WaltS48 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Replaced Pan on my systems ages ago. >>>>>> Pan isn't that bad. >> >> I used Pan for several years when I stopped using SeaMonkey. It has a >> decent scoring system and sub-thread handling. It was fine, but a year >> or two ago on my xfce system it became buggy - the GUI part. Wouldn't >> stay the same size - went off the edge of the display. I still use it >> occasionally. I've also tried XPN, knode, and sylpheed among GUI >> clients but generally use tin on Linux and SFOS. >>> >>> What you say is indeed the common (and I believe, accurate) view of >>> traditional newsgroup rules. However, I have always mused about whether >>> this makes sense in groups dealing with products that deploy HTML, e.g., >>> TB and FF groups. How much easier is it to present a problem in HTML if >>> it is involved with that problem? >>> >> But some newsreaders cannot read html. It's not a requirement of an NNTP >> client. I'm only seeing and responding to the plain text. So it may be >> easier to present the problem, but some readers will find it difficult >> to understand. >> >> Usernet is a plain text system. If you want or need to use html, use a >> forum. I like usernet - but I'm happy to use forums too. > The Mozilla newsgroups recently killed were plain text too. No they weren't. If you look at m.s.f and m.s.t on the news.mozilla.org server (they are still there for reading), you will find several posts in HTML by Good Guy in both of them. If only plain text had been allowed, Chris Ilias would not have let them through. -- Jeff