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Subject: Re: Please desist from embedding Ctrl-L
Message-ID: <11700001@ti-csl>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 14:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 29 14:55:00 1986
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Nf-From: ti-csl!fzw    May 29 13:55:00 1986


I (almost) NEVER read news articles which have cutesy embedded
^L form-feeds in them.  

No, not by choice-- I have a terminal with 40 lines, and most
of the people who put in ^L's think that the whole world has 
terminals with only 24 lines, just like their's does.  So I
see the entire article flash for a brief instant before the
screen clears.  

There are ways I could get around the problem, but reading news
on a 40-line screen is usually nicer than 24 lines.