On Jul 31, 10:38?pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [... more lines of broken line wrapping...] > > What the blazes is Google doing with messages that such a high > > proportion of them come through in this painful-to-read double-wrapped > > format? I'm referring to the fact that the lines appear to have been > > wrapped at one length, and then each line broken again into a long and > > a short line. > > Users write in a text editor formatting the text into lines of > reasonable size, separated by newline characters. They then paste the > text into a web form, which reformats it with slightly shorter lines > (breaking up the user's longer lines) but leaves the user's newlines > in place.
Google used to provide a preview before actual posting, but that is no longer available, so there's nothing the poster can do about it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
