Re: Degenerated workers state= oxyMORONIC. On format AGAIN

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Carrol Cox wrote:

> Neil,
>
>     Various persons, including at least Louis P and I, have made
> this point before: PLEASE USE YOUR RETURN KEY BEFORE YOU GET TO
> THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. Do not use word wrap. Lines that
> wordwrap on the screen, or even fill the whole screen from left
> to right, simply are not readable. I gave up on this message aftere
> about 6 lines.
>

Louis: I am beginning to understand the nature of the problem. People who
use Windows-based mailer software simply forget to throw in a
carriage return after they type 3/4s of the way across the screen. I can't
blame them. After all, these are computers we're dealing with, not
typewriters. I think it is most obvious in Neil's contributions because,
except for a brief time a week or so ago, they inevitably look something
like this:
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The sell-out, rotten petite-bourgeois misleaders of the Communist
Party
stab the workers in the back time after time. We need to construct a
genuine
revolutionary movment once and for all to stop these dirty betrayals.
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