IOW, damned if I do and damned if I don't (insert hard line breaks, that is).
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * 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:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:06 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair) > > In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b3...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, > on 02/27/2012 > at 12:52 PM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said: > > >I guess I'm just used to the email client inserting a line break > >"where appropriate". > > The e-mail client has no way of knowing where a line break is > appropriate, because it does not know the screen width that the reader > will use. > > >I tend to do email like I do word processing. I only use the > >"newline" key when I want to force a line break, or and the end > >of a paragraph. > > Quite properly, although it would be better if your software supported > RFC 2646[1], including Format=Flowed. > > >I didn't realize that some email clients don't conform to normal > >standards. I'll get in a habit of using the new line key more often. > > That causes problems for e-mail clients that do conform to normal > standards. > > [1] With a date of 1999-08, it's hardly bleeding edge. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
