In <[email protected]>,
on 02/27/2012
at 12:52 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>I guess I'm just used to the email client inserting a line break
>"where appropriate".
The e-mail client has no way of knowing where a line break is
appropriate, because it does not know the screen width that the reader
will use.
>I tend to do email like I do word processing. I only use the
>"newline" key when I want to force a line break, or and the end
>of a paragraph.
Quite properly, although it would be better if your software supported
RFC 2646[1], including Format=Flowed.
>I didn't realize that some email clients don't conform to normal
>standards. I'll get in a habit of using the new line key more often.
That causes problems for e-mail clients that do conform to normal
standards.
[1] With a date of 1999-08, it's hardly bleeding edge.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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