On 25 Jun 2000, at 13:28, Douglas P. McNutt wrote:
> 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.
> Am I asking too much?
Depends... if the only thing you ever receive via email is paragraphs of
text, then it can work fine. If you receive stuff that has been
carefully formatted [columned, long lines inserted from a log file,
multiline math equations, etc], it is very hard, if possible at all, to
guess right and reformat it. I find that if I run with 'local wrap' I
end up trashing more messages than I "help", not to mention that very few
[any?] mail systems handle local-wrapping of included, cited text [don't
you love it when you read the cited text with no marks in the margin and
">"s scatter all through it?]
Something that'd make us both happy would be if folks used the
"text/flowed" format, which was designed for *JUST* this purpose [see
RFC2646], instead of messing up "text/plain".
/Bernie\
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