In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robin Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think "flowed" achieves something different - the ability of the
> sender to have the recipient's email reader reform text according the
> recipient's right margin and according to certain rules in the RFC,
> which I assume are sensible. I can't imagine why I would want to use
> this in any email I sent.
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> Maybe the "flow" option could enable them to view it with a narrower
> margin. That might be handy - especially if it coped gracefully with
> indented text, which I think it does.
Not only does it enable them to view it with a narrower margin, it
allows the margin to remain the same through quoting.
Format=flowed is a good thing, and should be done by default by the
sender -- what the recipient see's is up to the recipient and his
software. If it doesn't handle f=f then it's no different than sending
the same message without f=f, if it *does* handle f=f, then it's the
job of his software to show it to him as he wants it to look.
In your case it sounds like you should turn it off for receiving (or
wait for the check-in of the option to display it without the bars),
although you might want to give yourself a chance to become accustomed
to the current look.
I've not been able to run mozilla for some time (they want a 233mhz and
all I have is an 80mhz of an older processor), but it doesn't have all
the options I would want for f=f yet, but it's clearly moving in that
direction and is superior to non-flowed text.
--
J.B. Moreno
