Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Vincent, could you please fix your mail client, or news client, so that it follows the standard for mail and news (that is, it has a hard-break after 68 or 72 characters?
This seems an awfully curmudgeonly reply, given that word-wrapping is also client-controllable. Every MUA I've used has afforded word-wrap including the venerable command-line "mail", mutt, Thunderbird/Seamonkey, pine, Outlook & Outlook Express...the list goes on. If you're reading via web-based portal, if the web-reader doesn't support wrapped lines, (1) that sounds like a lousy reader and (2) if you absolutely must use such a borked web-interface, you can always hack it in a good browser with a greasemonkey-ish script or a user-level CSS "!" important attribute to ensure that the <div> or <p> in question wraps even if the site tries to specify otherwise. There might be some stand-alone news-readers that aren't smart enough to support word-wrapping/line-breaking, in which case, join the 80's and upgrade to one that does. Or even just pipe to your text editor of choice: vi, emacs, ed, cat, and even Notepad has a "wrap long lines" sort of setting or does the right thing by default (okay, so cat relies on your console to do the wrapping, but it does wrap). I can see complaining about HTML content since not all MUA's support it. I can see complaining about top-posting vs. inline responses because that effects readability. But when the issue is entirely controllable on your end, it sounds like a personal issue. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
