> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:58:10 -0400
>From: Dan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SNIP]
>Don't "typeset" your postings. learn how to use plain text email. Most
>email clients can be set to break lines at 70-75 characters before or
>while sending the email, which would prevent the list server from
>"screwing up" your postings. Learn to work with the good old-fashioned
>email standards -- the lowest common denominator we use on the lists so
>that the most users can benefit from them.
When users hard-wrap their submissions, and those who quote them in follow-up
submissions hard-wrap with the same or a lower line length, you wind up with the last
word(s) of each quoted line being moved to the following line, as in the following
example:
> >Don't "typeset" your postings. learn how to use plain text email.
>Most
> >email clients can be set to break lines at 70-75 characters before
>or
> >while sending the email, which would prevent the list server from
> >"screwing up" your postings. Learn to work with the good
>old-fashioned
> >email standards -- the lowest common denominator we use on the
>lists so
> >that the most users can benefit from them.
IMO, text should not be hard-wrapped ehen sent to the list. And the list server
shouldn't mess with it! Let each user's mail reader soft-wrap the text of incoming
messages as it and the user see fit. Since virtually everybody on the list is using
Macs, it shouldn't be a problem.
BTW, is anybody using a mail reader that can't handle HTML-formatted text? And what's
so good about "the good old-fashioned email standards"?
- Aaron
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