Dudes. The problem is with the sender. You have some folks using an MUA that does not put in hard returns in the email.
Most MUA's will do an automatic line-wrap so they don't notice it. The archives don't do a line-wrap. If you want YOUR archive to line wrap, then run the archive mbox through the "fold" utility and regenerate the html archives. On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi J C, > > Regarding the principle of least surprise, the messages that have long lines > in the archives arrive in my inbox perfectly formatted. So, it was a surprise > to me that they did not line wrap in the archives. I suspect that AOL did > this for me though I haven't researched it. > > To me, content is the most important thing. What did the person say in their > message? As such, ease of reading in the archives is important to me. This is > partly why I use the stripmime script. > > As far as fidelity, preserving the headers seems to be the most important > thing, which Mailman does in the .mbox file. > > If I had a list of IT savvy users, it would be no problem. But my users are > savvy in other things, which are the things they wish to discuss on my lists. > > Some prefer to get no e-mail, and just read the list archives. This becomes > frustrating when you have to scroll horizontally for a long time. > > I understand that I may be in the minority here. Even though I'm not a Python > programmer, I do write other languages and can figure it out, though not as > elegantly as the Mailman team could. > > I would just like to suggest that this be an option. I have a feeling that a > lot of list administrators who have non-technical subscribers, and who have > migrated their lists from Yahoo, as a lot of people have done, would > appreciate it. > > -Susan > > P.S. - People wouldn't have moved their lists from Yahoo if they didn't feel > that this was a better product. I know I'm happy I was able to! > > > In a message dated 11/9/02 2:46:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 12:45:35 EST > > Topaz877 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The problem isn't with mail delivery, it's with the archives. It goes > > > without saying that Mailman can't do anything about how users > > > configure their mail clients. But Mailman does control how the > > > *archives* are displayed. > > > > Should the archive display messages as they were sent, or should it > > attempt to "know best" and do what it thinks is right, over-riding the > > specifics in the messages? No matter which answer its easy to come up > > with dozens of cases where its wrong. Once past that there are concepts > > and questions of fidelity: Is your archive an accurate representation of > > list traffic? Is the fact that it is (or is not) accurate, significant? > > > > Then there's the question and principle of least surprise: Which is more > > surprising, and archive which reformats or one which doesn't? > > > > For me its critical that the archives are accurate, both as to > > formatting and content, and that fact is significant as the archives are > > (effectively) the one recorded "historical truth" as regards that list. > > > > -- > > J C Lawrence > > ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? > > http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
