On 5/14/02 at 9:38 PM Allie C Martin wrote:
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|Mikem [M] wrote:
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|M> Yes it is possible. The email client I use for my mailing lists
|M> (Calypso) wraps locally without wrapping the outgoing message. I
|M> was chastised for this very faux pas earlier today. Oddly, this is
|M> the first mailing list that could not handle the messages. ;-(
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|M> Go figure.
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|If you wish for your message to be compatible with everyone's screen
|and for reading comfort, you should set your wrapping and not leave
|your text to window wrap which is what is happening to your text on my
|screen.
Why not let the receiver decide what is appropriate for his or her screen, and do the
wrapping on the receiving end accordingly. Why should I (or you) presume to know what
is the best manner of display for the recipient of my email? Sometimes I like my
screen to wrap narrowly (~40 characters or so) to work with other items on my screen.
Yet messages that are wrapped at 65 or 72 characters look rather poor (hard-to-read)
when displayed like that. Unwrapped messages look fine.
|This is established netiquette for years. You can have a look at RFC
|1855.
That RFC says wrapping in email should be at column 65.
"Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters
and end a line with a carriage return"
I see very few, if any, who do that here.
|Unlike on this list, many don't vocalise and just tolerate or ignore
|bad formatting.
Or perhaps they have email clients that are more capable. It may be
an error to presume that the problems you are having are experienced
by users of other email clients.
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