Christopher Jahn wrote:
>The sounds great, but Xnews does it without it, so what you're
>saying isn't actually correct.
>
Are you sure that Xnews supports format=flowed, RFC2646?
>It also does it "on demand", BTW. Putting control with the
>user, where it belongs.
>
I'll refrain from arguing about the sense of this feature.
>Ben, you might have a hard time grasping this, but "making it
>configurable" isn't posting a dozen lines of complex commands to
>wirte in to a key file.
>
Oh, yes that is the type of configurability which is the standard on
Unix. Sure, it's not the right thing for a normal user, but I think, few
normal users care about this discussion. Most don't even understand what
HTML is. (But see below.)
>There is no good reason for this NOT to
>be on one of the PREFERENCES menu.
>
You're arguing with the wrong one. I proposed that we have the option to
disable the bars for non-flowed plaintext in the prefs dialog. Others
voted against it.
