From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 7:13:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from studict.student.utwente.nl (studict.student.utwente.nl [130.89.220.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA9B37B406 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e.blok@ieee.org) Received: from hotrod (cal30b034.student.utwente.nl [130.89.229.21]) by studict.student.utwente.nl (8.9.3/MQT) with SMTP id QAA08694 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:13:05 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: <001f01c11838$b8c46b40$0215e50a@hotrod> From: "Eelke Blok" To: References: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org> <20010729080030.A41709@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Subject: Re: MT: top-posting Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:14:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Chris Moline" > How is wrapping text a bad thing?? It is very irritating to get a message that > is just one big long line. I suppose what is meant is that some E-mail programs wrap text regardless of whether it is quoted from the message that is replied to or whether it is new text. Outlook Express, for instance, wraps all lines it sends at some threshold (I believe it is 76 characters), including lines preceded by a '>'. This quickly results in messy quotes. The above quote would have looked something like this: > How is wrapping text a bad thing?? It is very irritating to get a message that > is just one big long line. Personally, I manually wrap the posts I create using Outlook Express, to stop this from happening. Cheers, Eelke -- Eelke Blok, http://haywire.student.utwente.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message