The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Bill Wood]

No. Your are not missing anything at all. The only
problem is that single strings without HRts are messed
with by the internet fabric for ancient reasons for
which I haven't grasped the technical justification.

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On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 22:24:07 -0700, Marty Abrego wrote:

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>On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 11:18:45 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:
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>>FWIW, I also like hard returns. However, I'd like more people to use
>>a sane line width (maybe 70 chars?) so I don't have to keep
>>stretching my message windows to see their messages with "one line
>>per line". :-)
>
>I never did understand this line of reasoning -- especially from OS/2
>users.  Don't we venerate doing business in platform/software neutral
>ways?  
>
>Hard returns only look good at "small" widths and get worse with
>every quoted reply.  It puts the recipient at the mercy of not even
>the original sender, but the random settings of everyone along a
>thread.
>
>Seems to me that the best way to get a clean-looking email display is
>for everyone to send mail with no hard returns except to break a
>paragraph.  Then all mail clients would produce a clean display by
>wrapping to whatever the current window width or however many
>characters the *user* wanted to see.  You wouldn't have to stretch to
>accomdate the email -- it look good at any size to which you stretch
>your window.
>
>Am I missing something here?
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Bill Wood
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wwwood@lv.rmci.net

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