Tek 4014/5 emulation

On Jun 14, 17:58, Mark Champion wrote: email readers. This allows the reader to format the screen as desired (similar to the way web browsers handle text). I believe all HTML compatible email programs have this capability. No they don't; and in any case many list members don't use "HTML compatible" or even MIME-aware readers. HTML has no place in email. Email does not revolve around M$ Outlook :-) As you see from the above, you lose the quoting when most software does the wrapping after the event. It's an accepted convention to keep lines short -- and I seem to remember we had this discussion a few months ago? lengths increase due to the > or > > or > > > which stack-up with each reply, the email remains completely readable and well formatted. (I'm sure everyone has received the email which is littered with tons of > > > > > > Well, I find the nesting usually makes it easier to retain attribution -- and I've never seen any software which can handle post-wrapping and keep the correct indentations. Particularly since not everyone uses the same quoting characters (I use "> " but others may use "<" or ":" with or without a following space). add the line breaks for any additional posts to this group. Yes please.

-- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York