On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:24:49PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > On 2012-11-20, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > Actually it's trivial to wrap text that is unwrapped, and to do so in > a way that meets each users preference. A news reader can simply add > a linefeed in place of the last space before the > user-specifically-preferred line length.
Agreed. The best solution for wrapping is for everyone to use flowed format, not insert line breaks, and for mutt to allow the user to chose what line length it wraps at. Though, there are some special cases where you really do want long lines, and ideally there would be a way to specify that. If HTML were not so horribly abused in e-mail, it really would be a much better way to format it. > s/standards/conventions/. If you mean to say standards, is this an > ISO standard? You should look up "standard" in the dictionary. His usage is perfectly fine. > Conventions are good, but only when they cater to those with *good* > tools. When a convention caters to compensate for poorly designed > tools, and then cause difficultly for others with good tools, the > convention should be challenged, IMO. What about the case where those with good tools suffer at the hands of the general masses who choose, mostly by default, to use tools that are garbage? -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
pgpJjbh5FyQQ5.pgp
Description: PGP signature
