Thanks. I've been very busy and was also completely off line for nearly a
week upgrading to a new computer after a crash. Here's something else to
pass on: When you are cleaning the dust out of your computer, take a close
look between the fins of the CPU cooler. My machine looked clean but the
cooler fins under the fan were completely choked with dust. The CPU thus
overheated.

It sounds like you might have a security or other setting set to not show
html postings. I'll post plain text from here on (Thanks, Dave) but you
might want to read what other bandwidth wasters have to say about boats.

-- Roger Long

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:11:55 +0000, Roger Long wrote:

"Matt O'Toole" wrote

Also, sorry to be a pain, but your last two wonderful messages were
almost unreadable with a text-only newsreader. There were no line
breaks, so I had to scroll horizontally. Outlook Express is famous for
such problems. I recommend turning HTML off and posting text-only, plus
maybe using an add-on like OE-Quotefix. Or changing newsreaders.

Sorry, I didn't realize, and wonder why, anyone would still be using a
plain text only reader. Seems like those who want to cling to the
Gutenburg age should perhaps make the adjustement instead of everyone
else posing to the lowest technology denominator.

Tell Microsoft! OE creates bad HTML that doesn't display properly in
other clients. It also doesn't handle newline characters (word wrap)
properly. This is bad enough with plain text messages, but it really
makes a mess with HTML.

I appreciate being able to click on links provided in these posts and
you can't do that in plain text.

Most "plain text" news and mail clients will display clickable links.

Isn't there
something you can click to force word wrap?

Not usually, and with good reason. It would screw up any pre-formatted
content.

I'm sure there are many opinions out there on this and I'd be interested
in hearing them.

I've created my own share of unreadable messages with OE. OE's text
editor bugs are well-known among programmers, webheads, and other
e-communications professionals. Since Microsoft doesn't seem interested,
people have tried to solve these problems with OE add-ons like
OE-Quotefix. I used these too for awhile.

Matt O.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:29:38 +0000, Roger Long wrote:

That's very interesting and it certainly does seem inelegant and wasteful
although I can't imagine bandwith is really a problem with all the video's
being sent around.

I agree that attachements, embedded pictures, animated signatures, etc. have
no place here. It's odd though that the only complaint I've gotten about
posting since signing up as the twelth internet user in Maine (outside of
educational institutions, anyway) was for my line feeds producing broken up
text. The concensus then was, "leave the line wraps to the reader".

Actually that's not the way it works. The writer should produce the line
breaks. The problem with OE is that it doesn't do this properly, and
with HTML it's worse. Turn off HTML posting and you solve half the
problem.

The reason OE screws up quoted text is that while re-wrapping it doesn't
remove old line breaks before inserting new ones. It also doesn't
recognize its own quote marks, so you wind up with in the middle of
lines. Put an HTML page through this and it ruins the HTML, making it
unreadable by machine or human.

I recently had to reinstall Windows and OE. I don't know at this point
what format I was posting in previously. I've set it back to plain text
to see how it works.

The default for OE is HTML posting. You have to change it back to plain
text.

Matt O.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:19:42 -0500, in message

DSK wrote:

Diesel fuel is still relatively cheap. Of the cruisers I
know, 99% of them motor 99% of the time when they are trying
to actually get somewhere. Crap sails is one reason for
that, but then you can buy a lot of fuel for the price of a
set of good sails.

Yes, my total expenditure on fuel since I bought the boat comes
nowhere near the price of a single sail.

Ryk

Ryk wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:19:42 -0500, in message

DSK wrote:


Diesel fuel is still relatively cheap. Of the cruisers I
know, 99% of them motor 99% of the time when they are trying
to actually get somewhere. Crap sails is one reason for
that, but then you can buy a lot of fuel for the price of a
set of good sails.


Yes, my total expenditure on fuel since I bought the boat comes
nowhere near the price of a single sail.

Ryk

I filled the tank in July and have burned off half of it already.
It's a 3 gllon tank.

RL

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:26:38 GMT, cavelamb himself
wrote:

I filled the tank in July and have burned off half of it already.
It's a 3 gllon tank.

You clearly need to buy a power boat in order to keep your fuel
freshened up. With good selection you could burn the whole 3 gallons
in a single mile.