Saturday, November 8, 2003, 5:47:43 PM, rich gregory wrote: rg> (I doubt what irritates you is either exclusively or rg> entirely Microsoft client users who do things just to rg> irritate you!!) The problem is not inconsiderate (or rg> uneducated) users. It is a lack of conventions 1) of the rg> many cultures of internet users and 2) across software rg> publishers.
There is a convention: it's called rfc 2822. From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html: Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. The document goes on to describe how those numbers are obtained. rg> Instead of each and every user trying to set their own rg> wrap at some arbitrary number that they hope other users will rg> be OK with the world would be a better place if we only press rg> CR at the end of paragraphs and let our email clients wrap rg> text so it fits on the screen. (Now it is up to the email rg> client publishers to figure how to fix this!) blagh. This potentially breaks the upper limit of rfc2822, and does break some email clients. This is why I switched to TheBat: people NOT using the return key will create lines that are very, very long that crashes some email clients out there. Is there such a limit to TheBat? Who knows...I did send a 900 character line once, and it seems ok. WL ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
