The e-mail reader will normally format the text, wrapping continuous lines
on the screen. This is a Good Thing because people will have different
screen sizes, so it's more effective not to include carriage returns
everywhere. The e-mail reader should just display the long lines and wrap
when it runs out of room on the screen.
On the other hand, you could
shorten the lines like this
by putting in carriage returns
at the end of each line if you want them
to go
like
that.
Sometimes what started out as free text with no carriage returns of its own
will pick up a set of carriage returns when it gets quoted. This behavior
seems to depend on the e-mail programs being used by the sender and by the
recipeient and thieir interaction. Better just to ignore the whole thing
because you can't control both ends of it.
At 09:02 AM 10/31/99 -0800, John Schilke wrote:
>Dear Tony et al.,
>Thanks for asking. As you see, curiously, your mail seems to have no
>problem, but the contributor's report is oddly (but not distressingly)
>wrapped differently. I don't understand this, probably because
>superannuation brings slight confusion!
>Best regards,
>John
>
>On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Tony Moss wrote:
>
>> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
>> A regular contributor to The List has reported a
>problem when receiving emails from me and suggested I ask if it is a general
>problem.
>>
>> >"....but your e-mail program seems to be having trouble wrapping the
>lines of text
>> >correctly, i.e., there are no line feeds typically just one long line of
>text. "
>>
>> If anyone else is experiencing difficulty would you please let me know as
>I have no desire to be an unwitting irritant.
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Tony Moss
>>
>>
>>
>>
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