>Yes, of course I put in my own returns. That's proper typing; >whether on paper, in a computer window, or so it might be printed >at the other end. To do otherwise is, I'm sorry to say, a laziness >induced by word processing programs that do the job for you, if >you let it. But it had never made it proper.
I have fully understood that you believe it to be proper. but - it is proper for another medium like a type-writer, but not for e-mail. in fact, it is even non-proper handling of a specific medium - as people use different font sizes and different paper sizes you just can not know how people are wanting to print what you send and thus you have no control over it in the first place. when creating websites you'd get confronted with this fact all the time (i.e. different browsers, web-languages, interpretation of guidelines, computer systems, computer platforms, user set preferences etc. etc. etc.) - it's a good exercise to learn accepting some of the current limitations of the internet and learning to understand the medium better. next to that, there is a point which I do believe that CTM could improve: when responding to an email, the added quotation marks (i.e. 1 added char per level of response) can make a quoted answer at various lines to be wider than standard internet wrapping (as PM takes the incoming hard- wrapped text and just adds quotation marks) and then on sending it, PM will correctly 'cut-off' the now too long lines. myself, I overcome this problem by using SmartWrap as that allows me to do many useful things (e.g. rewrap text so the response inclusive the quotation marks will be within the standard width) and a shareware well worth the money. it would though be nice not needing this extra step and if PM could automatically rewrap lines again to standard width when clicking 'reply' (this would also take into account the level of quotation marks / replies), and not only on sending of the reply. ---marlyse P.S.: Chris (the other Chris :) - I do not believe the thought is that PM line-breaks on incoming mail but rather on outgoing. Would be interesting to hear Jérôme input on how exactly PM handles this issue, and yes, the list-server-software might actually be the added random factor here ;-)
