Re: New to group -- ? about DSC QP6 Kit

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:15:34 -0500, Marc_F_Hult
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>On 31 Jan 2007 20:38:10 -0800, "dcalarms" <mdcalvert@xxxxxxx> wrote in
>message  <1170304690.732983.103840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>I appreciate the group's existence.  I have read a lot of the posts
>>and I think I will learn a lot by just being able to read and exchange
>>postings.  I do have a couple of questions.
>>
>>How do I get the new post screen to be full width so that I don't
>>to hit a end-of-line Return key in order to keep the text in the
>>viewable area of the screen?  I have not had to do that since
>>I last operated a KSR-33 Teletype Terminal in the 70's.
>>
>>Is there any way the forum owner can change the lay out at the
>>bottom of the new post screen?
>
>There are  chat rooms, user groups, and forums other than usenet in which
>the posting format is controlled by the "owner", but usenet is not one of
>these private entities.
>
>The comp.* hierarchy is one of the "Big Seven" newsgroup hierarchies
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup
>
>and comp.home.automation (aka cha and c.h.a. ) is not 'moderated' so there
>is no "owner". In any case, formatting is defined by your newsreader
client
>among other things. See my other response to your post for suggestions in
>this regard.
>
>Usenet began ca. 1979 so google.com  is a newcomer to usenet although in
>Microsoft style, it swallowed up dejanews.com which itself became an
>indispensable part of usenet by providing a much-needed repository
>("archive" ) for usenet.
>
>The Multics Continuum created by earth scientists in the US that I used in
>the late 1970's antedates usenet.
http://www.multicians.org/site-usgs.html.
>It was not threaded and not nearly as powerful as usenet wrt structure.
>
>"Forum" was a  bulletin board system  derived from "Continuum" that was
>developed in the early 1980's. It was reportedly renamed to "Forum"
>because the abbreviation for Continuum is an obscene word in French.('Nuff
> said ;-)
>
>Point is that usenet [is the predecessor of many of] the other user groups
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                       preceded
>that you may be familiar with [but] has a different structure and
                                ^^^
                                and
>'governance'. It is public, not private; self-policing, not
>"administered"; and 'free', not intrinsically commercial.
>
>... Marc
>Marc_F_Hult
>www.ECOntrol.org
>

See corrections noted with ^^^^^.

Marc
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