Re: ALL: Please format to 70 positions or less.
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 15:28 |
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John Cowan wrote:
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> Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
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> > So --- please, please compose your messages with automatic hard
> > linebreaks set to 70 positions, but only for new text. That leaves
> > room for a few levels of quoting before various other parts of the
> > mail systems begin to mangle included text.
You know, Lars, mine is formatted to put breaks in after the
70 positions, and it STILL comes out mangled when I see it.
I've checked it several times in Netscape. There it is,
line length seventy. I hate this damn mailer, and will take
suggestions for affordable alternatives.
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> Or better yet, discipline yourselves to use *manual* hard linebreaks.
> Pretend it's a typewriter. Really. Pretend.
I do, John. Absolutely. But sometimes one forgets.
Sally