Re: NTLK OT: too long lines in mails

From: jimthej (jimthej@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 10:33:17 CDT


I'm using Outlook Express on my Mac and it automatically wraps incoming
text, no matter how it was sent.
Jim Johnston
Teacher
Mac Smacker
Newton User

> From: Laurent Daudelin <laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com>

>
> Wolf Lichtenberger wrote:
>>
>> Hi fellow Newtoneers,
>>
>> on Mon, 31 Jul 2000, someone wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I'm not sure if I read a reply to your message, but in case you didn't
>>> receive anything, here is my take ;-)
>> [...]
>>> It might not be with the Notepad, but with some preference stuff for the
>>> Notepad that is stored in the System soup. Is the Notepad loading when you
>>> get the error, or do you get the
>>
>> I believe i speak for quite some people whose mail clients do _not_ do
>> automatic
>> wrapping of long lines in articles for reading.
>>
>> Could we possibly agree to use 72 or 80 characters max. in posting here?
>> (instead of sometimes over 180 like above)
>> This would IMHO improve the usability here a lot.
>
> OK, I understand and don't have any problem with this. I know it's
> really annoying. I'm using Communicator 4.7 at work to read/send email.
> I set it to send text messages when the recipient is not HTML capable,

> editor, instead of the HTML editor, and I can see that there are still
> long lines. If you can confirm, that will tell me I was right. I'm not
> sure if Communicator can post-process my message after I send it, it may
> and it may not, so that's why I'd like you to let me know how this
> specific message is looking for you.
>
> So, anybody knows how to "force" Communicator to wrap long lines in
> outgoing messages?
>

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