On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:40:25 +0100, Oliver Sturm wrote:
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> That might be some solution to the ever-present problem. But I still
> have to see a single email message that looks better in variable-width
> font. I have only ever seen that when two people communicating use
> exactly the same mail client. Those mails are either not formatted
> correctly (meaning lines are at maximum 76 letters in length, as it
> says in the netiquette (that user above in point 2: "Huh?!?
> Netiwhat?")) or they look awful as suddenly all lines are of very much
> different length.
What does wrapping at an appropriate character number have to do with
fonts that would render the message unreadable?
> OK, I already said I don't mind an option to switch to whatever font
> someone likes. Personally I've always been a little allergic when
> people try to change a perfectly functioning system like email. And
> that's what it's all about. When using variable-width fonts in The
> Bat! becomes possible, half the messages on this list will be
> unreadable, IMHO.
I think that with plain text messages you're exaggerating just a bit
there. The bulk of e-mail clients tend to slip up in one area and that
is with respect to the rewrapping of quoted text. All these clients do
support variable width fonts and one may have the incorrect notion
that it's the variable width font support that screws things up in
this regard. There are clients that do not do this, horrid wrapping of
quoted text such as Forte' Agent, Pegasus Mail, and PMMail that do
in fact treat quoted text in the right way.
I have no problems reading mail from these clients; and the senders, I
know for a fact, don't use fixed width fonts.
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