I prefer email clients, like Pine, which simply know to insert a line break every 72 characters or so while you're editting. It can also do a reformat to resize the lines to around 72 chars each with a <control>J. Beats the stuffings out of these "fancy" and "advanced" GUI clients.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J R > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12) > > Long lines are also a problem for me and I too spend a lot > of time keeping things short. > > One additional problem I seem to have is that, when breaking up > long lines, the <enter> key seems to result in double spacing. > That being the case, I try to use <shift><enter> instead, but > it's hard to remember when you just want to get some thoughts > down before falling victim to a senior moment. > > > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:03:24 -0700 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12) > > To: [email protected] > > > > =snip= > > Actually, I would appreciate it if more people followed > > this guideline: > > > > "Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a > > line with a carriage return." > > > > > > Long lines are problematic for me; a mail client may well > > automatically wrap to fit screen size, but when replying, > > long lines generally don't wrap and I spend a lot of time > > reformatting the quoted text to make it readable without > > scrolling or having wierd line breaks. But that's my > > problem and I'll live with it. But it would be nice if > > people gave it some thought. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Kind regards, > > > > -Steve Comstock > > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
