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- From: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
- Newsgroups: alt.amateur-comp,comp.text,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Thanks for "page break" responses
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:42:30 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1hd7bmINNrgh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu
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- A while back, I posted a request for information how to upload page
- breaks with large files. The answers I got had one interesting
- character. They all suggested that I asked the wrong question. First I
- should have asked, "Does anyone want page breaks embedded in uploaded
- and posted files?"
-
- All the answers suggested that embedding page breaks causes more
- problems than it solves. For most people who read posts and their e-mail
- on-line, page breaks are usually annoying. While for people who read
- posts and e-mail off line or from print outs, if they want page breaks they
- can read the
- files using almost any word processor. Most word processors insert page
- breaks automatically.
-
- I'm glad I posted the question and I appreciate the responses. I have
- been saved the added work of embedding page breaks and many readers have
- been saved the annoyance such page breaks would have caused them.
-
- Usenet News as an experiment in interactive and responsive connectivity
- has again proven its superiority to any of its predeccessors in labor
- saving and time saving conveniency. :) (:
-