Hi Ali Martin,
On Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 1999 at 20:15:49 you wrote:
AM> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:40:25 +0100, Oliver Sturm wrote:
AM> What does wrapping at an appropriate character number have to do
AM> with fonts that would render the message unreadable?
AM> There are clients that do not do this, horrid wrapping of quoted
AM> text such as Forte' Agent, Pegasus Mail, and PMMail that do in
AM> fact treat quoted text in the right way.
AM> I have no problems reading mail from these clients; and the senders, I
AM> know for a fact, don't use fixed width fonts.
My experience is simply that users don't care to be informed. That's
why so many of them use Microsoft software, that doesn't comply to any
standards at all.
So, what I say is just the following: If a user has (in my eyes) the
perfect email client, one that doesn't support variable width fonts,
no rich text, no html, and always breaks lines correctly at 76 chars
(you _might_ argue about that one ;), she will write perfect emails
all the time.
Give the same user Netscape (again, just an example) and three days
later she will have it configured to send mails in 13 1/2 pt Tahoma
red bold to everyone around. All her mails will generally be on one
line only, so quotation is real fun. If you ask why all that, she
doesn't know. She also has no idea what she does might affect anyone
else.
But it does affect me, as I'm reading (or at least browsing) hundreds
of mails daily. I'd love a world in which there were only pine and
mutt and a selected few (like The Bat!, of course ;). Those are
clients for the so-called EMail System and not for any wordart system
or whatever people nowadays think it is.
I won't say anything about this anymore, it's kind of a useless
discussion... Pardon me for ranting. As long as there's still a fixed
width option in The Bat!, everything's at least half alright ;)
Oliver Sturm
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