I HAD to throw in my 2 cents too...
> Most of them do auto-wrap at somewhere between 74 and 80 characters.
Actually, this is something I don't see. Some are capable of doing it on user request, though,
like Mozilla. If they do they will not produce the seesaw pattern but will reflow quoted
paragraphs.
"Standard" email has forced line breaks. Some [earlier] clients couldn't wrap long lines when reading, some mail transfer methods dropped data longer than 80 bytes, etc. A nice way to keep from breaking lines was/is to wrap original messages at, say, 72 characters. That gave you extra room so that when quoting messages, you could increase your breakpoint to, say, 74, 76, 78 so that the ">" marks didn't orphan pieces of each line.
Most modern email clients handle various methods of encoding, such as quoted-printable, that allow things to work more like a processor, where a paragraph is essentially put back together into one big line and then reflowed for viewing convenience. I know Outlook Express can do this without having to use RTF -- it's all a matter of configuration. Unfortunately, most OE users don't know about any of this stuff, and I dislike MS's choice of defaults, but that's another story...
There you have it, 2 cents, and not worth much more! :-)
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