Hello David,

Saturday, January 06, 2001, you wrote:

DB> Hello Andrej,

DB> Saturday, January 06, 2001, 8:27:57 AM, you wrote:

>> Other problem, many people writes their messages in MS WORD, then
>> copies to The Bat!, each paragraph in this case turns to one long line

DB> This can be avoided. Either use Alt+L to format the paragraph or
DB> (better if you have several paragraphs to paste) use Edit/Paste
DB> Formatted (Shift+Ctrl+Ins).


Sorry, I know about it and this is not a problem for me. I speak about
the people who send me these messages. I can not speak to all my
clients who uses The Bat! about Shift+Ctrl+Ins :-)

>> In a case with POP3 server of my WEB HOSTER, if this long line is
>> longer than 1024 characters, it is simply silent, without noise is cut
>> off on 1024 character.

DB> AFAIK it is part of the netiquette to limit the characters on one line
DB> to be no more than 65 (RFC 1855). There might be rules talking about
DB> slightly different limits (like 80 characters or so) but it certainly
DB> is below 1024 ;-)

>> I understand, you can speak that it is a problem of my WEB HOSTER, and
>> certainly I already speak with them about this, however is present rfc
>> which regulates quantity of characters in one line:

>> [...]

>> So I consider incorrect that The Bat! allows the users to send the
>> messages with long lines. Likely there are many more servers where the
>> long lines are cut off and users at all do not know about it!!!

DB> As you can see in the Editor Preferences TB wraps your text at 70
DB> chracters a line (this number can be changed). However Auto-wrap
DB> (another option) works only on typed text. Pasted text needs either to
DB> be "Pasted formatted" or formatted later.

DB> TB, however, allows you to have longer lines. And it won't change your
DB> e-mail after you send it (like e.g. Outlook Express does), which is a
DB> very good thing. There might be instances when you would want to have
DB> a line longer than the limit (for exapmle ion order to have a
DB> clickable URL - TB does by default not auto-wrap URLs).

DB> I agree that it was sort of a pain when pasting text consisting of a
DB> lot of paragraphs and formatting each one individually. But (I believe
DB> since versoon 1.48?) there is the option to "Paste formatted" which
DB> avoids these problems.

DB> Regards,

DB> David




Best regards,
 Andrej                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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