Mathias Bauer on 01.06.2005 9:50 wrote:
Morgan Olsson wrote:
Peter Reaper 18:22 2005-05-31:
PS. Why wasn't your text wrapped while I was composing my reply?
Because i have no way of telling everybodys mail readers line lengths
and character widths and make everyone special mails cut special
places.
That's not true. The *sender* of the mail specifies the line length. If
you wrap your lines at 72 characters every receiving client will display
them in lines with 72 characters.
This doesn't happen always in the mails of you and Peter for different
reasons.
The TB from Peter uses "format-flowed" by default (ask aunt Google for
more info) that for many reasons is called "format-flawed" quite often.
*Everything* is flawed in some way (although I have yet to discover any
serious flaw in f=f). The format=flowed method seems the *least flawed*
of the bunch, since it allows the user to resize their window to *their
chosen width* and the text will always wrap to that width. All other
solutions are rigid and depend too heavily on everyone using the same
settings.
Plus, deep nested replays made with diffferently broken lines which
make a mess. If line breaking is used some mail programmay break a
line, and when that s replied to extra identation makes that line
longer and it happens it is broken again making a single word line
between longer lines - ugly.
Exactly *because* so many mail clients (like OE, KNode etc. that wrap
even quoted lines at 80 characters length) have problems with quoting
longer lines it's common and polite practice to cut lines to a decent
length. Using 72 characters as a maximum line length (the default in
Thunderbird) allows proper quoting of replies even in OE up to quoting
level 4.
If all news readers used format=flowed (like Thunderbird does) then this
problem would vanish, and everybody could view their news at their
desired width.
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Regards,
Peter Reaper
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