On Jun 14, 17:58, Mark Champion wrote:
> Regarding the line length, I presume most users use "word-wrap" for their
email readers. This allows the reader to format the screen as desired
(similar to the way web browsers handle text). I believe all HTML
compatible email programs have this capability.
No they don't; and in any case many list members don't use "HTML
compatible" or even MIME-aware readers. HTML has no place in email. Email
does not revolve around M$ Outlook :-)
As you see from the above, you lose the quoting when most software does the
wrapping after the event. It's an accepted convention to keep lines short
-- and I seem to remember we had this discussion a few months ago?
> The big advantage of handling email this way is that when the line
lengths increase due to the > or > > or > > > which stack-up with each
reply, the email remains completely readable and well formatted. (I'm sure
everyone has received the email which is littered with tons of > > > > > >
> > > and barely intelligible.)
Well, I find the nesting usually makes it easier to retain attribution --
and I've never seen any software which can handle post-wrapping and keep
the correct indentations. Particularly since not everyone uses the same
quoting characters (I use "> " but others may use "<" or ":" with or
without a following space).
> If this is a general problem for other readers, let me know and I will
add the line breaks for any additional posts to this group.
Yes please.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 03:30:08 BST