Tek 4014/5 emulation

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Jun 15 14:33:03 2000

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> 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.

That is my vote also.
                                                 - don
 
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>
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
>
Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 14:33:03 BST