Re: Mail readers

2004-03-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... > > RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3676.txt Thanks for the tip. It's a shame that people (e.g., MSFT and its supporters) can't all a

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... > > According to the FAQ, it (f=f) was developed (IIRC) by Qualcomm to Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc367

RE: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
It's not just terminal mail readers that had the problem ... I'm using MS Outlook 2000 and your problem messages also appeared screwy to me. I don't have any suggestions to contribute, just this observation. -Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
f and don't have time just now to investigate, but I'll keep typing anyway. I think the problem is the same but worse. f=f is probably spec'd in a new draft RFC and many mail readers don't support it, so your correspondents on a list list this can't handle it well

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
ge framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable But sadly, many (most?) mail non-MSFT mail readers don't understand those WINDOWS-1252 characters even they're properly labeled. So we see your smart quotes, etc.,

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Parv wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? Love to! Your first reply did not wrap around ~72 characters; it went until the width of my terminal (mutt 1.5.5.1_1 in

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... > > Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? Love to! Your first reply did not wrap around ~72 characters; it went until the width of my terminal (mutt 1.5.5.1_1 in xterm) for all practical purposes.

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Incidentally, can others on the list verify where my mail is wrapping? > I was working with someone offlist to see if, in Mail.app, my wrapping > is affected by the size of the composition window when I send the > message. I n

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Yup. I do it manually - just hit that nice big Enter/Return key between a couple of word when I get out around that far. Which is why, on my mailer, quoting you gives a full line then one word then a line...it kind of reminds me of a person I

Re: Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be > > easily read. > > I'm using Mail.app on OS X 10.3.3, and someone offering some advice > from this list also > asked me to fix line wrapping. I checked and checke

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] Out of curiosity, what email program are you using that it's not showing up? I thought the FAQ said that many term emailers support the flowed format...essentially my hitting "enter" at the end of each line is making it more difficult for the format=flowed-speaking

Mail readers (was: Re: Portupgrade troubles, interactive ports)

2004-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 17, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be easily read. I'm using Mail.app on OS X 10.3.3, and someone offering some advice from this list also asked me to fix line wrapping. I checked and checked, but found nothing in M