Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:38:20 -0800 From: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Benson <bradley@softhome.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) Message-ID: <370473EC.6DFF6E3E@uswest.net> 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> <19990402165434.D413@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: >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? The problem was that it would just let my text run long, making it hard to review the e-mail before sending. The screen-width problem didn't even exist then, everyone was using 80-column screens. IMNSHO, relying on a computer to have any semblance of intelligence is asking for trouble. Then again, trusting a Windows user to have any semblance of intelligence is foolish. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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