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Re: TAN: Netscape Mailer

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 22, 1998, 16:46
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.