Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Dave Liquorice]

On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:22:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>>>>>     Yes.  But that isn't the point.  Even though PMMail's editor doesn't do
>>>>> it, other editors can reflow quotes rather easily.  With joe, for example,
>>>>> ^K^J will reflow a quote.  So even if the quoted portion is long/short, that
>>>>> one command will make it pretty again.

No! and it is the point. "Reflow at send", nothing to do with editors,
doesn't reflow quotes at all.

#>>>>     Yes.  But that isn't the point.  Even though PMMail's editor
doesn't do
#>>>> it, other editors can reflow quotes rather easily.  With joe, for
example,
#>>>> ^K^J will reflow a quote.  So even if the quoted portion is
long/short, that
#>>>> one command will make it pretty again.

No! and it is the point. See the mess above that is done with reflow at
send set to 72 chracters, a wide message window and quote marks
inserted taking the new line length over 80 characters. Not an uncommon
occurrance.

The big problem with this is that you don't know that the reflow munged
the lines so you unknowingly send badly formatted messages.

Cheers
Dave.