On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:03:30 -0600, Leo Bricker K5LDB wrote: > Unless one is typing on a manual typewriter or has reached the > end of a paragraph and is hitting return to add a blank line > before the next paragraph then one shouldn't put a linefeed in > their message in my opinion.
That is all well and good if the e-mail sending program wraps (i.e. automatically inserts LF/CR) each line in your above- described "stream of consciousness" type text - what my wordprocessor calls "MS-ASCII Text"- not only on the text presented to the composer but also in the outgoing message. My e-mail program allows me to use a full-screen text editor which wraps at 70 characters per line and spell-checks each message prior to accepting it for sending. Not all e-mail programs will do the wrap on received text. Mine, for instance, is very polite -- if you send me a message with 300 characters in a row it will display all 300 characters in a single line if there are no LF/CRs in it. I get around that by hitting the delete key. I spend most of each day reading and answering professional and personal e-mail and usenet messages, and won't waste my time and emotions reformatting a message that the sender could have but failed to format before sending. I'd rather spend my time working 40 meters..... -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
