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|    Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev    |
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|    28 Nov 23 16:24:16    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 6565f80a       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 6565b3a4       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 3.0 20231126       NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101       Thunderbird/31.7.0.       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0200              Hi, Anton Shepelev - Alexander Koryagin!       I read your message from 28.11.2023 10:32               AK>> There area lot of people with small narrow displays and        AK>> long line allow them readd paragraphs correctly.        AK>> Paragraph with hard-wrapss look badly in that case.        AK> Following BSes, FidoNet sooftware assumed the user had at        AK> least the tandard ISO screeen, that is 80x24 characters.        AK> All modernvideocards suppoort that textmode, and all modern        AK> displays hve good-enough rresolution to display an        AK> 80-character line of text.              Most modern devices have small screens, for instance, smart phones, tablet       computers. Their users use soft like Microsoft windows when they can choose       large symbol fonts. If you want to surprise them unpleasantly you can format       your text by 80 symbols. ;)              Bye, Anton!       Alexander Koryagin       english_tutor 2023              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 123/131       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840       SEEN-BY: 218/850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112       SEEN-BY: 229/113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35       PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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