Lars S�lter, [LS] wrote: > Or the poster, that has complained about my long lines could use > a email software to read email - I know, a rather stunning concept.
Sorry. The burden is on you to make your messages readable for all those who may wish to read them. This is why there are standardized recommendations for e-mail formatting, a fundamental one being that your text lines should be wrapped to a limit not exceeding 80 characters. This makes your text readable, no matter the tool/app being used to read it. I stumbled on Forte' Agent and then TB!, all part and parcel of the quest to find a client with an editor that could make me send messages in a reliable format. I detest editors that display a particular format that looks great and then sends a different format. Of course the UNIX model of making any editor usable with any client would make this sort of issue moot. TB! doesn't wrap on sending messages since MicroEd, the original editor for TB! doesn't need that feature. However, the Windows editor needs that feature and RIT have not included it. Sad, but true. So the decisions really are: - To continue making your readers uncomfortable. Don't think for a sec that Carsten is the only one having a problem with your long lines. I very much dislike them myself. Even with TB!'s viewer, your lines appear too long (not that they flow off the screen and out of view as with Carsten. However, it's tedious reading text with very long lines). I guess I could change to a client that will wrap your text to 72 characters. No. It's more often easier to simply not read the message. - Stop using the Windows Editor and use MicroEd instead. In return for its quirks you are guaranteed easy formatting of your mail in a highly reliable fashion. - Use some other third party tool like TextWrap to wrap your text after editing with the Windows editor. The question really is who should be making the effort here? The one who is sending a message that he wants to be read, or the one doing the reading to make the effort? In any reasonable environment, it's always the former and not the latter, and this is why the list rules of formatting are there. -- Allie Martin [List Moderator and fellow end-user] � My PGP-Keys: http://key.ac-martin.com � The Bat!� v2.13 "Lucky" Beta/7 � Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) ..... I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
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