good catch of the problem. 
I suffered when I read IETF email on the web.
Would be great to see this fixed.

Lixia

On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Stuart Cheshire wrote:

> In the MHonArc mail archive there are often super-long lines, which would be 
> wrapped to the window width when viewing in most mail clients, but when 
> viewed in a web browser they appear as long single lines which take a lot of 
> left-to-right scrolling to read them.
> 
> For example: 
> <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/renum/current/msg00060.html>
> 
> This appears to be due to MHonArc's use of the PRE tag, which tells the web 
> browser to display the literal text exactly as given, in a fixed-width font.
> 
> The MHonArc FAQ suggests a couple of solutions to this problem:
> 
>> Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages?
> 
> <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#lineclip>
> 
>> Can the <PRE> tags be removed from converted messages?
> 
> <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#removepre>
> 
> Can we consider using either of these options?
> 
> Using "maxwidth=xxx" would solve this problem, though of course it opens the 
> debate about what's the right value for "xxx".
> 
> Using "nonfixed" has the nice property of letting the web browser wrap the 
> text to the window width, but might break ASCII-art diagrams. Perhaps that 
> could be fixed by making the default font a fixed-width one (e.g. via style 
> sheet) and using the "keepspace" option, which would give us monospaced text 
> while still allowing the web browser to wrap the text to the current window 
> width.
> 
> Stuart Cheshire <[email protected]>
> * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc.
> * www.stuartcheshire.org
> 
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