>As I mentioned earlier, this is my VERY first experience with NOT being able >to decide how MY letter >should look/read. And being used to that kind of basic freedom, it is not >only annoying, it looks >stupid at the other end and makes the writer look like an idiot - like they >never even learned how >to formulate a letter. Not to mention breaking links making that function >of email useless. ... > >Simply put a function that allows the user to set their own word wrap and >EVERYONE can be happy. >My emails can look more professional, and you can set yours at 78 so it can >look like a Chinese >newspaper.
I dunno. Do you ever get simple replies back to your e-mails that look like the above? How about this?: >>>>As I mentioned earlier, this is my VERY first experience with NOT being >>able >>>>to decide how MY letter >>>>should look/read. And being used to that kind of basic freedom, it is >not >>>>only annoying, it looks >>>>stupid at the other end and makes the writer look like an idiot - like >they >>>>never even learned how >>>>to formulate a letter. Not to mention breaking links making that >function >>>>of email useless. ... >>>> >>>>Simply put a function that allows the user to set their own word wrap >and >>>>EVERYONE can be happy. >>>>My emails can look more professional, and you can set yours at 78 so >it can >>>>look like a Chinese >>>>newspaper. Quite frankly, unless _every_ e-mail client has a built-in feature that auto-rewraps quoting in the exact same way it was broken, you can never guarantee that what you sent will be received _as_ you sent it, e.g. a fictional 100-something character line length shown above. All it takes is one computer/program in the chain to muff it up. I'm sure there is software in use that is not updated because it does exactly what it's supposed to do. As it's not broke, its owners don't try to fix it. Now, it's broke to you, but just who is paying the cost to upgrade all this, possibly with new hardware, not just software, and troubleshoot it to its previous point of reliability? (The points previously mentioned about costs and the third world state of affairs were well made.) Also, the recipient can resize their windows and reflow the text as they please to yield what works for them, which - believe it or not - may be something better for them than your n-character ideal. LOL - I remember doing a t-shirt design once that I spent some time in choosing the right font, tweaking the letters, etc. Much later, after turning it in (I was just the design end of it), I heard that it had been _faxed_ to the company doing the silk-screening! All they wanted was the idea, then they went and recreated it. They chose different fonts - nothing even close to what I had used - and yes, it looked like crap. Maybe the option for fixing the line length should be in there; I wouldn't object to it. But I wouldn't put any money on it looking "right" on the other end. If looks are that important I'd send it PDF as an attachment. My two bits. :) Chris --
