When I apparently was hassling everybody with 80+ lines Mr Keith said...
>Well, I don't know anything about "m
>ailer"s, (whatever they are) but any e-mail application which makes it
>almost impossible for the sender to generate tolerably readable
>messages is in my opinion broken. Features like using proportionately
>spaced fonts for mail messages may look pretty when you are composing
>the mail, but you will give headaches to the people reading your mail
>on anything but precisely the same mailer, and as a result your e-mail
>messages will look like they came from somebody who either knows very
>little about computers or doesn't want anybody to pay attention to
>what they are saying. It's the electronic equivalent of mumbling and
>is basically impolite.
>
>/<eith defending Frode's valid point
I've been looking around a bit at how this mailer works and what it can do -
it's all new to me at the moment. I have now put the mailer in a non
truetype mode. So hopefully all these messages will fit on the 80 char
displays... Even though full 80 char lines don't fit on my screen (a max of
78 I think - due to the scroll bar). So let's see how it goes then shall we.
BTW I was under the assumption that text would not be sent as "text, line
feed". I thought it would be something like a wordprocessor with soft enters
after each line and hard enters after a paragraph. This would make indenting
a bit of a pain though. This could be solved by using quotes (") or
something else to quote the message though.
Anyway, sorry for the hassles.
I thought the summary of what the different file systems offer by Keith was a
very smart move. It is of course always handy to sum up what's being said
when discussing something. I still prefer the suffix scheme. Maybe that's
due to the problems I had with getting a list of mod files from a sam disc
(which was easy peasy with a pc disc). Having floating suffixes is not
handy.
Stefan Drissen aka Solar Flare of Entropy
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Drissen)
S-mail: Zevende Herven 6, 5232 JZ 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
