21 May
2012
21 May
'12
9:27 p.m.
At 08:32 PM 5/21/2012, you 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.
This is a new paragraph, because it's a new
thought or point. To wit, I think I must be not
understanding some folks in this discussion to
have come away with the notion that they manually
insert every last line break, something I haven't
done (except in multiline comments in Perl scripts) for decades.
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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.