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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) But, reading lugnet on the web, it doesn't. -Shiri (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use fixed-width fonts. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Fujita does it again! (was: Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ?)
 
(...) featuring Mr Fujita's LEGO Star Wars!! Their review: "The product of over 2,500 hours of monomaniacal determination, the Lego Star Wars Trilogy recreates 180 key scenes from the original series. Relive all of those magical moments through (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.starwars)
 
  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) both times. :) Dan (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Not to mention that modern word processing software takes cares of inter-sentence spacing by itself. The typing of a second space is a wasted keystroke. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) Well, not quite...I'm not ready to posit a cause-effect chain. I was merely trying to say that I couldn't fathom how the script itself could add anything more than a small fraction of a second. Slow DNS is one possible answer, but if it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) It seems that slow DNS is the culprit if Todd is right. Why does cutting and pasting make it go faster? If Todd is right, you would have to pay the same DNS price either way. Or is it just a perceived speedup? Well, I've set FUT o-t.geek to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Not generally true in common internet style. Furthermore, *defintely* not true when using proportionally-spaced fonts. With e-mail and news, everybody should be using a monospaced font, so using two spaces is acceptable [1], but if you're (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: laser Safety and cats
 
(...) Ya but yours contains characters I can't easily type! :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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