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Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn

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The following bytes were arranged on 31 Mar 2012 by Rick Murray :

> I still use Yahoo! for my Mail! but I would run from the web version.
> My poor mother is using an eeePC with a 1024x600 display and Yahoo!
> Mail! which seems pathologically unable to understand that there are
> alternatives to 1024x768 (so most of her mails have loads of blank
> lines at the bottom to work around the editor going off the bottom of
> the screen).

I have a similar problem with the 'new' Gmail, or at least Virgin
Media's thinly-rebranded version of it (I don't know if vanilla Gmail
has the same issue).

For preference, I read my email on RISC OS using Messenger Pro over POP,
which is much nicer than any kind of web interface, as well as being
very highly configured to my tastes.  But sometimes I want to have a
look at my inbox when I'm away from home, so I log into the webmail with
my laptop.

Now, said laptop has a wide screen, which is a polite way of saying it
has a very shallow one - 1366x768.  Google, or perhaps Virgin, seem
unwilling to acknowledge the existence of such resolutions, for fully
half the height of the screen is conventionally taken up with an
enormous advertisement, leaving me to peer at my email through a
scrolling letterbox in the bottom half.

Thank god for the basic HTML view, which I switched to the moment I
discovered how (Virgin's custom skin disabled the option for some
reason, but it's still there if you know what URL to type).

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Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn glavallin <glavallin@gjlavallin.plus.com> - 2012-03-31 11:21 +0100
  Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 13:07 +0200
    Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 12:26 +0100
  Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 12:25 +0100
  Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-31 15:22 +0200
    Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-31 16:59 +0100
      Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-31 18:20 +0200
        Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-31 19:45 +0100
          Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-04-01 19:41 +0200
        Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:00 +0200
          Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-31 22:49 +0100
          Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:22 +0100
            Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 01:11 +0200
            Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 16:12 -0700
    Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 22:28 +0200
      Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Folderol <folderol@ukfsn.org> - 2012-03-31 21:34 +0100
      Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 00:40 +0100
      Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-04-01 15:57 +0200
        Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-01 16:53 +0100
        Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 22:43 +0200
          Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-04-02 19:04 +0200
            Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn John Sandford <lists@thesandfords.me.uk> - 2012-04-02 23:36 +0100
              Re: Funny Message on Google Groups Acorn workstuff@mail.com - 2012-04-03 19:10 +0200

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