On 25/02/2011 16:27, Keith G wrote:

"Eiron" wrote in message
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On 24/02/2011 22:48, David Looser wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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The real lesson of the Vietnam war is that a conscript
army composed of people who do not wish to fight and have
no personal interest in the outcome of the war struggles
to defeat an army of people defending their homeland
against a foreign invader, even if far better supplied
and equipped.
Ironic that we didn't take that to heart when we freed ourself from
a tyrant named George by exactly that means.

Yes, isn't it?

Though I question your use of "we". Judging by your name I doubt that
your ancestors were any part of freeing anyone from a" tyrant named
George".

Another point you've missed: the Americans who "freed themselves from
a tyrant named George" were every bit as much foreign invaders as the
forces they defeated, the native Americans never got their country back.

Oh, and George wasn't a tyrant, he was a constitutional monarch.
Absolute monarchy had ended with the English Civil war.

ITYM the Glorious Revolution.


Why do your posts come out in such tiny lettering? What are the font
settings - are they less than 11 pt. in 'Compose'?

No idea. As far as I can tell, my posts are in plain text.

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Eiron.

"Eiron" wrote in message
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On 25/02/2011 16:27, Keith G wrote:


Why do your posts come out in such tiny lettering? What are the font
settings - are they less than 11 pt. in 'Compose'?

No idea. As far as I can tell, my posts are in plain text.


But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:18:04 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Eiron" wrote in message
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On 25/02/2011 16:27, Keith G wrote:


Why do your posts come out in such tiny lettering? What are the font
settings - are they less than 11 pt. in 'Compose'?

No idea. As far as I can tell, my posts are in plain text.


But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?


My newsreader sets its own text size and font. Or rather I have chosen
them in a settings menu. As far as it is concerned every post is just
plain ascii text with no extra parameters attached.

Simpler is usually better.

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Keith G said...

But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?

Using Gravity everyone looks the same. I've just fired up Windows Mail
and subscribed to the group and while most messages display correctly,
Eiron's messages are displayed in a tiny font.

Must be the way WM handles different character sets.

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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
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Keith G said...

But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?

Using Gravity everyone looks the same. I've just fired up Windows Mail
and subscribed to the group and while most messages display correctly,
Eiron's messages are displayed in a tiny font.

Must be the way WM handles different character sets.


OK Ken, thanks for that! It tells me I'm not the only one and it's not at my
end!

In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Why do your posts come out in such tiny lettering? What are the font
settings - are they less than 11 pt. in 'Compose'?

No idea. As far as I can tell, my posts are in plain text.


But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?

Posts to usenet don't include font size or indeed font details.

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*One of us is thinking about sex... OK, it's me.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:23:44 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Why do your posts come out in such tiny lettering? What are the font
settings - are they less than 11 pt. in 'Compose'?

No idea. As far as I can tell, my posts are in plain text.


But at what size? Does anybody else get your posts in tiny text I wonder?

Posts to usenet don't include font size or indeed font details.

They can, but in a text-only group such as this they should by rights
get filtered out by the system. Unfortunately Usenet is no longer run
properly and text groups are in effect part binary.

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