Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Bill Wood]

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:09:27 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:02:42 -0700 (PDT), Bill Wood wrote:
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>>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, excessively 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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Actually, I do understand your point. I guess I don't understand the 
importance of the quoting. I usually don't answer email a couple of 
lines at a time. It's just not my way.

Be that as it may, I do believe that if you want to fit inside of 
people's readers on a 3-sigma basis you'd better use something 
shorter than 72 characters. When I send hard wrapped msgs I use 56 
characters.



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