Hello Mike,

Saturday, January 20, 2001, 11:48:32 AM, you wrote:

GFS>> This is a knee jerk work around. How about giving the user the
GFS>> option to use hard returns or not.

MY> Standards are not knee-jerk reactions.  If you insist on sending
MY> unformatted e-mails, don't be upset with the complaints you get from
MY> recipients.  The Bat! is an e-mail client, not a DTP utility.  The
MY> function it performs is that of conveying textual information in an
MY> efficient and straight-forward manner.  Unformatted lines, Rich Text,
MY> HTML, XML etc. do not enhance that function.

Standards were not taking place in the discussion.  The discussion
was on how TB's editor interacts with the user.

MY> However, if you insist on long lines that will, no doubt, cause readers to use the
MY> horizontal scroll bar, or view the message in an uncontrolled, and most likely,
MY> unwanted manner, then by all means turn off "Utilities/Auto-Wrap" (Shift-Ctrl-W).

MY> Should the demonstration in the previous paragraph actually work, my
MY> apologies to everyone else.

You where demonstrating just what?

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