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Re: TAN: Netscape Mailer

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 22:48
I'm going to try this again.  Even stopping halfway
through I note that my voluntary carriage returns
are not being honored.  Just to give this a test: <cr>
I will indicate where I've put in a carriage return <cr>
and see if this doesn't help the "look" of my messages.<cr>
By an inch high, I mean the unmaximized window that<cr>
the Netscape Mailer gives you to compose in.  I can<cr>
maximize it, and that helps.

Sally Caves wrote:

> > Not so fast. That screen is sized to generate 80-column messages > > when using 10-pt Courier New. Widen it, and you get messages that > > some folks have trouble reading. (I have introduced bogus > > newlines into your message above to give you an idea how it looks. > > > > -- > > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org > > You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. > > You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. > > Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)