On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:22:25 -0500 John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Just wanted to make the point that MUAs should *not* put in > line breaks except for new paragraphs. Any decent MUA that is reading > the message will perform the line wraps for you based on the size of > your window. Wrong. 1) Not everybody uses a windowing interface. 2) Not all text is prose 3) Not all text can be reflowed without losing data. > It is really a kludge to force the sender to put in line breaks every > 72 characters. Nope. This argument was fought and quite properly lost almost 20 years ago. > And, as Susan pointed out, most MUAs will wrap for you. Thus, how do > you get the web view of the archive to do the wrapping? It doesn't > have to change the content of the message, just the display. You don't unless you wedge-fit hack onto your system in order to cover up other's broken software. -- 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: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
