Re: TAN: Netscape Mailer

Sally Caves wrote:

> It's not the width of the screen that
> bothers me, but the height.  At the moment, I'm writing in a screen
> an inch high.
I'm using Netscape email now, and though used to
it's quirks, still it occasionally bonus-wraps a word
as in yours below. It does allow changing font size
to something legible, and displays quoted text in
a different color, which is very nice on properly
formatted usenet-style text.

> I'm making carriage returns at the end of about five
> inches.  When I mazimize the screen, then I get a much better working
> space.  I still try to make carriage returns at the end of five inches.
> The
> real culprits are mailers like the one Diana uses (pace Diana!) where it
> doesn't generate hard carriage returns.  Everything I get from Diana
> that isn't on one of her "better" machines, comes out as one long line
> that I have to arrow over to read.
Actually, we are all effectively using different sizes
of virtual paper, and even different fonts and colors.
I am typing this black-on-pink, monospaced, but the
reader will see something different. Why should I
determine how you see it? Really, the "carriage returns"
(such a beautiful phrase) should *mostly* be "soft",
i.e. change-able at the whim of the reader. And even
Netscape *does* have a "view wrapped" option to make
those long-single-line-paragraphs come out right.
I prefer reading newspaper-style columns for plain text ...

We should follow the ancient usenet conventions
whenever possible ... But this will change soon.
Remember, it's the thought that counts.