21 May
2012
21 May
'12
9:41 p.m.
On 05/22/2012 12:27 AM, Tom wrote:
Do you manually put in EVERY line break? Why use a program at all, you
could just use vi and sendmail. I only put in breaks at the end of a
paragraph. Don't people ever change their mind and have to insert/delete
text? Then what, rejigger all the lines by hand? Surely you don't still
do that? Even Wordstar on a CP/M system in the 70's handled text flow
better than that.
On the TYPING end. Liam is talking about arbitrarily reflowing stuff
on the READING end. I interpret that as "displaying something other
than that which was sent", which is, IMO, evil.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
We're in agreement there. I'm saying that the
line-wrapping should
(and pretty much always has, all the way back to the BBS days)
happen on
the SENDING end. Email isn't a "format
it any way you want to READ it"
medium like the WWW was intended to be (but really isn't). It's a
"format it any way you want to WRITE it" medium.
If hard-wrapped E-mail is bad, then I guess I'm a perpetual offender.