Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:54:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: Brad Benson <bradley@softhome.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) Message-ID: <19990402165434.D413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net>; from Nocturne on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:10:32PM -0800 References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> <37046B4D.47BC1A7E@uswest.net> <19990402163727.C413@lemis.com> <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net>
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On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 23:10:32 -0800, Nocturne wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 23:01:33 -0800, Nocturne wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>> <snip> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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: >>> >>> Done. As for explicit CRs, it's force of habit for me to hit return >>> at the end of each line, it comes from my beginings of using pine >>> which just scrolled over when your lines ran long. >> >> Ah, but then you're working around the problem. Most people who use >> these mailers let the "editor" do the line wrap for them, but it's too >> stupid to distinguish between what you enter and what was there >> before. > > But the work around came from a problem with a very common unix-based > mailer, not Netscape, so that makes it okay, right? :-) I don't understand. Where's the problem with a UNIX-based mailer? 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
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