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From: Graeme Wall <>
Subject: Re: Browser wars
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 12:21:08 +0100
References: <yUe$i$AIWOF7Ewbf@tdrake.demon.co.uk>, <991330842.21270.0.nnrp-01.9e98a0c0@news.demon.co.uk>


In message <T+>
Barry Ruck <> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, at 12:37:40, in soc.genealogy.britain, Barney
> Tyrwhitt-Drake <> made the comment
>
> Major Cyber Snippage Has Taken Place ....
>
>
> >>I repeat my earlier question:
> >>
> >>Who the hell would wish to view a census page sideways ? If the answer
> >>is no one than why do you need this facility ??
> >>
> >No one of course other than someone who thinks the Raving Monster Loony
> >Party should form the next government.
>
> I did receive a direct reply from David Thomas, the relevant part of
> which is given below.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) It is sometimes necessary to rotate the image to view an institution
> some of which are written in a different orientation from the main
> pages.
>

I have a very handy utility that will rotate a jpeg through 90 degrees if I
need to view it sideways.

> >
> >* I can think of at least two experienced genealogists at the Society of
> >Genealogists who attended the same college at Cambridge as the Culture
> >Secretary, Chris Smith. Both of them have sufficient neck that they
> >would be willing to approach the Master at their alma mater on an issue
> >like this, to try and get him to put pressure on at ministerial level.
>
>
That`s assuming he is still Culture Secretary come Friday.
--
Graeme Wall

A Victorian Restoration of a Parish Church
Cold Salperton, Gloucestershire
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/Salp.html>;

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