Hello Miles, in msgid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] was written:
PP>> Than don't rewrap. Send them their stuff as it is received at your PP>> side. MJ> You missed the point. No. I didn't. I know it can be a pain reading this crap. But if it is a 'waste of your time' doing the re-wrap: don't do it. Call it resignation or call it tolerance, but I've given up screaming out when I get these kind of mails. You can't proselytize all people out there, so they might get the hint to shorten their line; but nothing more. If I feel to lazy to re-wrap their lines: I don't do it. If I'd feel this being a 'Waste of time': I'd not do it. If The Bat! hadn't this great <Alt>+L shortcut: I'd not do it. I'm conservative in what is sent out, so my lines are wrapped at 75 characters. If any Outlook (or even Lotus Notes) user simply is not educated enough to follow me and argues: "But it's all fine over here." I can't to anything. I don't want to make a screen shot every time to prove, I don't want to waste my time 10 time as much with arguing than simply ignoring (damn ... is this an English sentence? I'm somehow 'slow in mind' today). My girl friend for example has to use Lotus Notes at work. She forwards mails to me and it's pure horror. I had a seat at her desk to adjust this stuff: no chance. It looks like it should on her screen; what makes it's way into my mailbox is simply ugly. So why telling somebody not even able to understand the difference between a 'soft wrap' and a 'hard wrap' what's so ugly? He/she will not notice. And all this ends up in: If I feel it's a waste of my time and they can't be proselytized I don't re-wrap. MJ> but THEY don't care. Exactly. So why should I do care 'to much'? There's a small responsibility on my side, as I know about all this stuff. But if somebody is not willing to follow my explanations; or if somebody has no technical abilities to change something that would affect the wrapping (e.g. company software setup that's not adjustable): why should I care about _their_ system? It's all like in the old speech: Be liberal in what you receive and conservative in what you send. :-) MJ> Forgive my ignorance, Peter, but what the heck is a "signature delimiter"?! *Ohohhh* :-) Seems you haven't read the welcome message completely :-) http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/subtbudl.txt Point '1.j.' described it before you were able to send the very first message to this list :-) But as I see Thomas already was so kind to explain it in different words :-) -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v1.62/Beta4 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2) John Birch Society - that pathetic manifestation of organized apoplexy. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
