From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 22:52:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE4215253 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:52:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA16432; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:22:28 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA95264; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:22:22 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:22:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nocturne , Brad Benson Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net>; from Nocturne on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:37:32PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 22:37:32 -0800, Nocturne wrote: > Brad Benson wrote: >> >>> >>> Sure, that works, but it's a workaround, and a barely acceptable one >>> at that. I've been corresponding with users of Microsoft platform >>> mailers (there, Terry!), and they continually run into trouble because >>> they're used to autowrap. >> >> I'm constantly moving between various UNIX, FreeBSD, and Microsoft machines >> and have become used to the work arounds involved. I would hope that most >> people on these list could handle some basic work arounds. after all Work >> arounds are a way of life in the computer world unfortunately. >> >> I know there are problems with the Netscape mail program, but are they only >> on the Windows version? Are these problems present in most GUI based mailers? >> Mac, X-Windows, and such. > > This message is sent using Netscape Messenger v4.51. Do you see any > problems with the formatting? Not this one, but the maximum line length was 76 characters. You carefully omitted the original mutilation :-) Remember the original challenge? Something like this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, that works, but it's a workaround, and a barely acceptable one >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at that. I've been corresponding with users of Microsoft platform >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mailers (there, Terry!), and they continually run into trouble because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they're used to autowrap. If you can reply to that without mutilating it, without entering explicit CRs, and without making your own text too long, I'll be impressed. I think you *should* be allowed to reformat it, as long as you keep the indentation level, something like this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, that works, but it's a workaround, and a >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> barely acceptable one at that. I've been >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> corresponding with users of Microsoft platform >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mailers (there, Terry!), and they continually >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> run into trouble because they're used to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> autowrap. Of course, even that gets a bit useless by the time you have 70 quotes :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message