From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 12:49:07 CST
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, John Stanley wrote:
> One should not have to print or cut and paste USENET messages to be able
> to read them. You do not know whether the recipient's reader supports
> backspace, or whether it will be destructive or not. We've already
> discovered that backspaces do not work in Netscape, nor in trn.
The one-character-at-a-time style works just fine in trn. The point is
that readers *should* support this (and the sequence is chosen so that
simple destructive backspacing does no harm). Whether or not to use it
is certainly up to the poster, since it may enhance readability for some
at the cost of reducing it for others.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net