At 12:17 -0400 06/25/00, Tom Neff wrote:
>For lists with something non-Net related (i.e. real world) to talk about, text still
>wins in my experience.
Agreed.
I'm a lurker who is about to start managing a list and wants to do it right the first
time.
The only feature other than TEXT, whatever that is, that I really want is the ability
to wrap lines at the RECEIVING end. I am frustrated by intermediates which insist on
adding returns in indiscriminate fashion. When my 65 year old eyes are tired at night
I want to change the font size and have my 22 inch Apple monitor display nicely
wrapped text in a big easy-to-follow proportionally spaced serif font.
I want it to work even for quoted material and even if the message has passed through
a digest processor. I want my Macintosh TeachText format and I don't want UNIX or NT
(VMS) servers mucking with it. I don't want a bunch of equal signs at the ends of
lines either. Just pass the text back out the way it came in where a return character
or character pair indicates end of paragraph.
HTML can make that happen but it's in spite of the dumb things that MajorDomo seems to
do like imposing a limit of 255 characters in a paragraph in a digest. But I tend to
put off reading mail that arrives in html pretty much forever. With few exceptions
html is an indicator of display advertising which I filter out anyway.
This text will not be wrapped as I send it. It will be interesting to see what it
looks like when it comes back. Shrink your viewing window and see if your reader wraps
lines to the new size.
Am I asking too much?
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