tass sez: >Hey Chris. >I've already said that it's obvious that one can't do much about what >happens once it gets into replies. That's the way it goes. So be it. >
You're not reading and comprehending. It isn't just replies that will be munged when your perfect letter goes out. One more time: The servers your mail is being handled by could chop your email into pieces. PowerMail just wraps to the standard before it goes out rather than letting you send out mail you THINK everyone is going to get as you "design" it. But some of them may not. Maybe the people you correspond with will never have mail arive through one of these servers. Maybe you never plan on corresponding with anyone who might not get your 120-character length lines, but if that's the case and PowerMail is really a bitch for you, then go with another program. >And one last time, I'm not talking about endless strings of text. Just the >normal letter length text lines that I, and millions of other people have >been emailing for nigh on 10 years. What are "normal" letter length lines? Are you trying to make email look like paper mail? Email is not paper. Do your "normal" lines fit on my screen if I have my font set to 40-point bold monospaced letters because I have eye problems? Maybe I have a tiny font set? You have no control over what your letter looks like on my end, so you shouldn't even be trying. > [something about hitting returns] You don't need to hit returns. It isn't a typewriter; you aren't pushing a lever at the end of each line and pushing the carriage back to the left edge of the paper. Just type, and PowerMail will take care of wrapping. The only time you should be hitting returns is for paragraphs or - when - making - a - list (And the last will only look good if you have a monospace font set for reading. It'll look great for my friends who still use amber dumb terminals attached to VAX systems.) As for URLs, there should be NO problem with URLs if you put them in <> (angle brackets) -- if you cut and paste the URL, PowerMail will automatically use angle brackets. URLs in angle brackets should be double-clickable no matter the number of lines they take up. Some clients may not follow this standard, but that ain't PowerMail's fault. >I certainly didn't mean to incite such religious fervour over some long >forgotten First off, I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill with this statement (besides starting to make it a bit more personal than it has been). I haven't seen any "religious fervour." Just a statement of how things are; you're the one denying that it exists. Right, we get it. It's old tech. BMWs don't have cranks, and email should let us do whatever, and men shouldn't have nipples. Whatever. This is just the way it is, and that you've been shielded from it by other email clients doesn't mean there weren't some poor souls trying to make out email that looks like this because you've entered odd returns in some attempt to treat electronic writing like paper writing. I bet you might be amazed by the number of folks over the years that did get some very ugly email from you but never said anything because they figured it was your email program or the internet or even something they didn't understand mucking it all up. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
