///////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ On 11/22/03, Tim Hodgson wrote: >On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:19 am -0700, tass wrote: > >>As I mentioned earlier, this is my VERY first experience with NOT being able >>to decide how MY letter should look/read. And being used to that kind of >>basic freedom, it is not only annoying, it looks stupid at the other end and >>makes the writer look like an idiot - like they never even learned how to >>formulate a letter. Not to mention breaking links making that function of >>email useless. > >Well, as Wayne explained, it doesn't matter how nicely you format your >email, you have no control over what various servers will do to it on its >travels. (In fact, one of your recent posts to this list was obviously >set to something like 120 chars, and arrived here broken into alternating >short/long lines.) > >TimH > > Hey Tim. That's my whole point. Those breaks weren't done down the line, those lines were broken by PowerMail as it went out. Ever since I've now been trying it out, my emails have been showing up like a grocery list everywhere they go. And it looks like, well, crud!!!!
Sure, at some point the lines get ridiculous and they have to get cropped. But we're not talking about some newbie that can't remember to EVER hit the "return" key - just normal letter styled writing since we now have the technology to have our communications look proper again - and since it's NOT a new idea. As I said, PowerMail is my FIRST in 9 years of running across this problem. And if an email client refuses to join with the rest of the world in the current convention (even if it hasn't yet been carved in stone by some secret society), they could at least have that wrap happen WHILE you're typing so you can see what your document will look like BEFORE it goes out and you look like a moron. Sure, once replies come into the picture, things change radically. But at least the original looked as intended. Have fun, ht
