Aaron writes:
>>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.
First, I have no control over how the list server wraps the text. I can't
change it.
Second, if you hard-wrap your text at 70-75 characters, it should be
possible to quote it back to the list once or twice before the kind of
bad wrapping exhibited in your triple-quoted text appears.
Third, it's rarely necessary for anyone to quote back three levels or
further when posting to a list.
>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"?
Yes, the listmom is using a plain text email program. That means it is
virtually impossible for me to read HTML email, since it's full of <TEXT>
<BETWEEN> <STYLE> <COMMANDS>.
By allowing only plain text postings to the list, we assure that all
StarMax users can read the postings, the digest, and the archives
regardlesss of email client or browser. And isn't that the point of the
list -- supporting as many as possible?
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