I cant see what the fuss is about, using gmail, your text is all about
the same size, except when Noel says he changed to 12pt, then it looks
larger than everyone else's, including jdow's.
I think it comes down to what client you're using, and its fine by my
reckoning, and it also word wraps fine here, if I was him I wouldnt
bother changing a thing.
On 12/8/14, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote:
>
> Eh? I'm not young, unfortunately, although I'll take it as a compliment.
>
> I don't really care if Noel uses Roundcube or not, but it was irritating
> when he was asserting a few days ago that it "wasn't his MUA's problem"
> when it clearly WAS his MUA's problem.
>
> After several others chimed in telling him that yes, they were seeing
> the same thing, I see he has finally accepted it.
>
> Please note that I didn't start this one either, I was NOT the first one
> to point out the legibility issues. Others did, were told it was their
> problem. I don't like innocents being blamed, and I'm quite sure if
> most people were in a car accident where the other driver was 100% at
> fault, they would not stand for accepting blame either.
>
> If that's impolite, I'm not sure what the definition of polite is - is
> it paying for the car accident you didn't cause? Just asking.
>
> Ted
>
> On 12/5/2014 12:24 PM, jdow wrote:
>> Charmingly polite again, eh Ted? Surely you can do better, young man.
>>
>> {+_+}
>>
>> On 2014-12-05 01:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is Roundcube. It does not insert soft line breaks
>>> as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding. There's a lot of
>>> MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very
>>> good web
>>> mail interface. I'm always surprised at how vehemently
>>> people defend it.
>>>
>>> Many email clients can be set to automatically wrap received text.
>>> Including the
>>> one I'm using now. But I don't turn that feature on because I want to
>>> give the
>>> SENDER of the message control over text positioning. I feel that if
>>> the sender
>>> has laid out their email a particular way, they have a reason for it.
>>>
>>> ASCII with a fixed font like Courier has always been the standard for
>>> email, and
>>> you can do stuff like this with it:
>>>
>>> ------------------ ------- \
>>> | Network router |---| NID |-------
>>> ------------------ ------- /
>>>
>>> Which is far, far quicker and more efficient than attaching some visio
>>> drawing
>>> that I probably don't have a viewer for loaded on whatever system I'm
>>> using.
>>> And I won't even get into indentation of code in Email messages.
>>>
>>> As such, senders who are clever and careful and make use of fixed
>>> width fonts
>>> and ASCII text can do a heck of a lot quicker communicating and more
>>> understandable than a bunch of HTMLized stuff using a proportional
>>> spaced font
>>> that munges drawings, and destroys indentation, and such people have a
>>> damn good
>>> reason at times to send out text that is soft broken at specific
>>> places. So if
>>> I turn on Word Wrap like Android does I have just succeeded in
>>> shooting myself
>>> in the foot when I get an email from the smart people. So I assume the
>>> sender
>>> knows what they are doing and do I don't try to second guess them by
>>> wrapping
>>> their stuff.
>>>
>>> If you want to send out email that looks like it's been beaten by an
>>> ugly stick
>>> with weird looking fonts and lines that run on forever and ever, with
>>> no thought
>>> to positioning and making it look readable, as far as I'm concerned,
>>> that's not
>>> a reflection on me, it's a reflection on you. I'm not going to change
>>> my config
>>> to clean up your email, particularly when your the only one doing it,
>>> no more
>>> than I would waste time tucking in the shirt and straightening the tie
>>> and
>>> shining the shoes of a salesguy who showed up to sell me something.
>>>
>>> It's also not really my job to explain the concept of the blind
>>> leading the
>>> blind and relate that to the fact that "nobody else has ever yadda
>>> yadda yadda"
>>> but I'll do it anyway - it wasn't too long ago when the vast majority
>>> of people
>>> thought the world was flat, but that merely meant that the vast
>>> majority of
>>> people were ignorant - just like the vast majority of people who have
>>> never
>>> brought it up to you before are just as ignorant of line wrapping.
>>> After all,
>>> it is an esoteric subject.
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>> On 12/4/2014 10:20 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
>>>> On 05/12/2014 14:40, Dave Pooser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/4/14 10:27 PM, "Nick Edwards"<nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>> It's also not wrapping the text at all.
>>>>>> it wraps fine here
>>>>> Look at the last roundcube post, the one sent at 01:06 GMT. The line
>>>>> of
>>>>> quoted text runs 273 columns without a linewrap.
>>>>
>>>> What client are you using?
>>>>
>>>> roundcube - wraps
>>>>
>>>> Evolution - wraps
>>>>
>>>> the font size btw is identical to yours on both.
>>>>
>>>> only two I use for this a/c
>>>>
>>>> forwarded that message in question to my private address, and checked
>>>> it
>>>> in android tablet and phone, both wrap.
>>>>
>>>> since no one has ever brought this up with me before, I'm placing this
>>>> as not my problem to resolve.
>>>>
>>>
>
