On 2012-11-30, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:25AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: >> > Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects >> > for members who tend towards old school tools and technologies. Mutt >> > users are obviously more likely to be strict about text-only, >> > 72-column wrapped messages than users of, say, GMail. >> >> Ok, I've seen this enough times now that I have to ask.... What is it >> about having a .gmail e-mail address that implies lack of proper >> formatting for e-mail? > > I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it > was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent, > wasn't it?
Even that's not usually too bad. When I read messages in mutt that were composed in the Gmail web UI, they're usually OK. It's the Google Groups Web UI for newsgroups and mailing lists that's an unmitigated disaster -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at borrow 26.7% of the RAYON gmail.com TEXTILE production of the INDONESIAN archipelago?