Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Steve Lamb]

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On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:02:42 -0700 (PDT), Bill Wood wrote:

>There are some readers that don't reflow properly but most do, including PMMail. I've spent a fair amount of time looking into this.  

    And you missed this, and my point.

>BTW, checkout the paragraphs of mine in this msg and see if they reflow at your read-window boundary. Try changing the window size.

    See, I'm not changing the quoting here.  I get one quote line per line of
text even if your text is 20 lines long.  Proper quoting would be like below.

>There are some readers that don't reflow properly but most do, including
>PMMail. I've spent a fair amount of time looking into this.  

>BTW, checkout the paragraphs of mine in this msg and see if they reflow at
>your read-window boundary. Try changing the window size.

    See the difference now?  By not wrapping at all most mail clients will not
*QUOTE* properly because it is one, exceesively long line.  Furthermore,
anyone on a terminal mail client will not see since they generally do not wrap
lines as they assume you meant it that way for whatever reason.

    By setting it to wrap at reflow three things happen:

1: You actually are wrapping your text instead of just making one big line.
You could get that with no-wrapping turned on.

2: You're conforming to the internet standard of text being 72-78 characters
in length.  People can quote you more effectively.

3: If people have larger windows, they aren't going to complain.  If people
have smaller windows, that is their tough luck as they have no leg to stand
on.  They can up their screen resolution, increase window size.  Meanwhile,
people who are trying to do the right thing (quote properly, adhere to
internet standards) have the moral high ground.



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