--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: <snip> > What you quoted of mine formats just fine in Thunderbird. If your > browser pane is too small on the web site it may not format properly but > most people have newer widescreen monitors that have plenty of room to > display lines.
On my monitor, which is widescreen, two of the above lines are broken in the Reply window. Let's see what happens to them when my post appears. It can also be helpful to use a smaller font when viewing posts on the Web site. > But Turq is about the only person who does archaic hard > returns. Wrong. I do as well, and so does Willytex. > Nobody should have to go out of their way to format for web > forums. You're forgetting what happens when someone responds to a post via the Web site. The software adds hard returns to the end of every line (if there isn't one already) and two characters (>[space]) to the beginning of every line. The result is that longer lines get broken instead of wrapping, and it gets worse the longer an exchange goes on. But the extra characters at the beginnings of lines make a conversation so much easier to follow; you always know who's written what by how many > characters precede the lines. The early BBS readers were so much better at this. And boy, if we could all just remember to SNIP stuff we aren't responding to, reading posts would be so much more pleasant. That's 50 for me and out until the weekend.
