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From: David Empson on 16 Mar 2010 19:39
Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <1jfgty2.12vuugk1khz4N%henry999(a)eircom.net>,
> henry999(a)eircom.net (Henry) wrote:
>
> > Please don't post to USENET in html.
>
> Please find a better newsreader. It didn't show up as HTML here.

That doesn't change the fact that it was posted in HTML, wasting
bandwidth, storage on every news server, and causing problems for many
non-HTML newsreaders.

The convention for Usenet has always been plain text (though some groups
may decide otherwise).

For some insane reason, Unison 2 chose to default to posting in
MIME/HTML. From a quick glance (without actually configuring it to use a
news server) I can't see any preference for this. One strike.

Every time I launch Unison, it insists on changing the system's default
news reader to itself. Two strikes.

It might be a setting which is specified on a per-group basis. I can't
get that far as it seems to be unable to connect to my ISP's news server
(which requires authentication). Instant fail. Goodbye, Unison.

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Su-Z-Q on 17 Mar 2010 06:31
In article <dorayme-100D51.16055117032010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Yes, that is what I did! Replaced the 20 brilliant Dell with A
> 24" Good Enough LG. Size compensated a bit. Tell you what though,
> it unexpectadly cost me an extra few hundred bucks anyway because
> I was getting neck and shoulder problems and tingles down my arm!@
>
> Cat scans and docs and in the end I diagnosed the problem! I was
> looking at the middle and the top of the bigger screen with
> towards the bottom bit of my multifocals (the bit that is the
> greatest in magnification and meant for reading). The neck was
> therefore strained.
>
> I went to the optometrist and ordered a computer pair of specs
> that had the middle prescription of my normal at the top and the
> mag at the bottom. Shorter range, no good for distance viewing.
> After a week or two the tingles went and it was definitely a
> solution.
>
> The drastic solution I first contemplated - seriously - was I cut
> a hole in the desk top and make a platform underneath for the
> stand of the monitor to be lowered to, the monitor then lower,
> the top of it more comfortable and the rest my old normal specs
> easily coping. I got as far as marking pen lines, measurements
> and getting some wood together until I realised about alternative
> special glasses!
>
> I would be having this problem with any big monitor these days.

One word: trifocals. My middle cut is for my monitor. Been using them for years.
--
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 17 Mar 2010 11:21
Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <1jfgty2.12vuugk1khz4N%henry999(a)eircom.net>,
> henry999(a)eircom.net (Henry) wrote:
>
> > Please don't post to USENET in html.
>
> Please find a better newsreader. It didn't show up as HTML here.

I do. It's called MacSOUP. Usenet is plain text. NOT HTML.
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Warren Oates on 17 Mar 2010 15:01
In article <1jfj839.io8x0n4b74zuN%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz>,
jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

> I do. It's called MacSOUP. Usenet is plain text. NOT HTML.

I don't see any HTML here.
--
Very old woody beets will never cook tender.
-- Fannie Farmer
From: dorayme on 17 Mar 2010 15:40
In article <hnqb1j$p1s$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Su-Z-Q <reply(a)this.group> wrote:

> In article <dorayme-100D51.16055117032010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
....
> >
> > I went to the optometrist and ordered a computer pair of specs
> > that had the middle prescription of my normal at the top and the
> > mag at the bottom. Shorter range, no good for distance viewing.
> > After a week or two the tingles went and it was definitely a
> > solution.
> >
....
> > I would be having this problem with any big monitor these days.
>
> One word: trifocals. My middle cut is for my monitor. Been using them for
> years.

That would not have solved my problem, multi is not relevantly
different for the problem of looking at the top of a big screen
without straining the neck. My middle of multi was your middle
cut.

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dorayme
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