Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are "flowed"
> when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are
> all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines
> each terminated by a return.
>
> I don't see how to disable this in Mozilla's preferences. Can someone
> enlighten me?
>
> I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 on Debian Woody x86.
>
> Mike
Flowed just means that 72 character lines are terminated by a soft
return instead of a hard return so that when a program like Mutt reads
the e-mail it will see the soft return and treat it as a return and so
it will get proper wrapping, but if a client like Mozilla receives it,
it can remove the soft returns. The point of this is so that the text
takes up the whole message window and also so that wierd things don't
happen when you reply that has the '> ' push the last word of the line
over the limit so that it gets put on a line of its own even though it
is the middle of the sentence. You can try playing around with these
preferences:
// Format=flowed prefs, RFC 2646
pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", true);
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
pref("mail.display_struct", true);
pref("mail.send_struct", false);
but I am not sure what the problem the usenet moderator is having with
it since anyone on the receiving end can disable its display as easily
as you can edit its sending.
Also, there is a long standing bug that if you start typing on the line
immediately following the quoted part of a reply that it won't wrap
properly so skip a line before starting your reply.
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