In a recent note, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM said: > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:01:18 +0200 > > Right, I see it. I only have the first 3 lines in the newsgroup, > probably because the period after "and the brokerage's" has wrapped to a > new line and a period on position 1 terminates the message. This causes > newsgroup reading problems every now and then. > And, FWIW, the period as it appears on IBM-MAIN's web archive is exactly in column 72.
I hate mailers that compulsively wrap lines absent any RFC 822 requirement. At best, they break URLs; sometimes something more bizarre, such as the above happens. They're "only trying to help you." And some of the blame lies in MTAs from vendor(s) that I won't name here that store messages for forwarding in fixed-length 80-character records, leading some originating MUAs to wrap lines in self-defense. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
