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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken)
Subject: Line wrapping (was Re: Critter powers...)
Date: Tue Dec 4 01:40:01 2001
Kesh writes:

> I remember that a long time ago, most did wrap at 72 chars per line, but
> IIRC most modern ones only force that wrapping for when the text actually
> hits your mail reader, not in sending. When it forcibly wraps in sending,
> it can cause weird line breaks since the quoting characters add to each
> line.

Er, if the mailer program _doesn't_ insert hard end of line markers, how do
you expect it to be able to place "> " type denotations in front of quoted
text, exactly? It could place a single "> " or similar in front of the
_first_ line of each paragraph, but it wouldn't know where the second line
would start on any given display screen individual people's mailers might
have, so it couldn't do any others.

OTOH, such mailers tend to denote quoted text in different manners, such as
coloured text, italicised text, font changes, or whatever. But then they're
hardly compatible with any other mailer programs, so they're just about
useless <points finger at Microsoft>.

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Kesh)
Subject: Line wrapping (was Re: Critter powers...)
Date: Tue Dec 4 18:15:00 2001
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:40:33 +1100, Damion Milliken wrote:

>Kesh writes:
>
>> I remember that a long time ago, most did wrap at 72 chars per line, but
>> IIRC most modern ones only force that wrapping for when the text actually
>> hits your mail reader, not in sending. When it forcibly wraps in sending,
>> it can cause weird line breaks since the quoting characters add to each
>> line.
>
>Er, if the mailer program _doesn't_ insert hard end of line markers, how do
>you expect it to be able to place "> " type denotations in front of
quoted
>text, exactly?

I wasn't referring to quoted text. I was referring to original text. Yes,
quoted text would have the breaks, but for some reason I was thinking
original text would not. Oh well.

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