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Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:25:24 GMT
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I'm sorry but it did not show up like that in email for me. I checked the
message on the web and it was in your post that showed up with the line being
long, not mine.

Ryan

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On 4/8/99, at 3:28 PM, Paul Foster wrote:

SCOTT R DENNETT wrote:

I have to agree here. Some of your messages are kind of(sometimes very)
confusing. And when you reply to a message you delete what was in the message
rather than leaving the part of the original message you were replying to. If
you were to do that, then that would help A LOT. Also like Sproat said
punctuation and caps would also help, and even punctuation would make the
messages easier to read. For example you could write what you did like this
so that it would sound ok when reading it.

"since i posted the announcement, i have added 'not disk' and 'cylinder
support'." or
"Since I posted the announcement, I have added 'not disk' and 'cylinder
support'." rather than
"since i posted the announcement i have added not disk and cylinder support"

Could you set your line length to less than 80?  The whole sentence
above that
starts with "I have to" is one huge long line.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
 
Came out long to me as well. .02, John (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
 
(...) That's probably because your newsreader isn't set to wrap out-going messages or it's line-wrapping is non-standard. The web interface may be able to understand the protocol, but not all other newsreaders do. When the message is replied to, it (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
 
(...) Could you set your line length to less than 80? The whole sentence above that starts with "I have to" is one huge long line. (26 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

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