On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:38:40PM +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-14, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Now that you say it, it's obvious. > > I was simply thinking that HTML was the source of the problem, because > > I only noticed such problems with HTML mails. Was a stupid reasoning. > > > I can see how one might think that the noobs who use html for simple > text messages on mailing lists are the same exact noobs who don't know > enough to wrap their fricking lines. > > But actually there are two overlapping sets, A and B, of which the > intersection (A ∩ B) consists of noobs who both use html and write long, > unwrapped lines that go off the screen--exit, stage right--the worst of > both worlds, so to speak.
If you use the webmail interface, this can happen also. Even if you change to plain/text mode the long lines still occur unless you explicitly insert a return/enter, yourself. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131015174008.GB6144@tal
