From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 23:25: 1 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 48B7115056 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:24:55 -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 QAA16530; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:54:35 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA95384; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:54:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402165434.D413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:54:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nocturne Cc: Brad Benson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net>; from Nocturne on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:10:32PM -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 23:10:32 -0800, Nocturne wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 23:01:33 -0800, Nocturne wrote: >>> Greg Lehey 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. >>>> >>>> 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