On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:37:31PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 23:38:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote: > >> > >>> My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length. > >>> > >>> http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/Email%20Line%20Wrapping.png > >>> > >> It's not always a readable length. Long lines are much harder to read, > >> that's why newspapers use columns. The accepted width was generally > >> considered to be 2.5 to 3.5 alphabets (not characters because of > >> proportional type) which matches up rather nicely with the 70-odd > >> character generally recommended for mail. > >> > > Strange, on Kmail Indi's text does not wrap as shown in Stroller's > > screenshot, > > but extends to the end of the message window just as Stroller's text does. > > > > It was here too. I have one more question. What the heck is going on > with our email stuff? First broken threads, now word wrapping not > working correctly. Did someone break a mirror? O_O >
All mail here is edited in vim, so I know I'm wrapping my text. The quoted text left in in my replies usually appears "as is" deliberately, as a courtesy. It's always good to verify what one's mail looks like in another MUA. :) -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
