Hi Rich, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 11:26:04 AM PST, you wrote:
> I have asked several times how force my mail to wrap as youse guys > want to read it and still use the editor I am comfortable with. I > suppose you can just ignore that. Okay...I'll try not to ignore you on this particular issue... It is my understanding that with all the various text formatting options available to various email clients across several OS platforms, the only reliable *standard* remains *Simple Plain Text*. If you're using the "Windows compatible" editor, and using a proportional font of your liking during composition, it is my further understanding that this is no guarantee that your recipient will see it *exactly* as you feel you might have intended, because some recipient of yours just may not have a particular font available in their system...or, their system's way of dealing with line ending issues is different than the method *your* system uses, thereby potentially causing unexpected behavior at your recipient's end. I should mention here that I'm theorizing in general terms, admittedly without a comprehensive knowledge of exactly how various systems might and/or do interact on all these levels. This brings me back to the idea of "simple plain text" formatting for *the best possible compatibility* with *anyone's* system. Until I learn otherwise, I will always recommend using the "MicroED" editor with TB!, and using editor utility options like "auto-wrap", and if you wish, "auto-format" as well (when it seems appropriate to you). At least this way, you can be *quite certain* that once you've sorted out what seems a reasonable adherence to "netiquette standards" with regards to line wrapping lengths and such, and sort out your own issues of learning to use the many *plain text* editing configurations and keyboard shortcuts available to you with TB!, *all* your recipients have a decent chance of reading well (neatly) formatted, easy to read text. To my mind, this is the only reliably courteous thing to do (and it really doesn't seem much of a bother to accomplish either). -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys TB! v2.01.3 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
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