From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 23:11:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F83114C8D for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 7945 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 1999 07:11:17 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 7930 invoked by uid 0); 2 Apr 1999 07:11:16 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 2 Apr 1999 07:11:16 -0000 Message-ID: <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:10:32 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brad Benson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> <37046B4D.47BC1A7E@uswest.net> <19990402163727.C413@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 23:01:33 -0800, Nocturne wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, that works, but it's a workaround, and a barely acceptable one > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at that. I've been corresponding with users of Microsoft platform > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mailers (there, Terry!), and they continually run into trouble because > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they're used to autowrap. > >> > >> If you can reply to that without mutilating it, without entering > >> explicit CRs, and without making your own text too long, I'll be > >> impressed. I think you *should* be allowed to reformat it, as long as > >> you keep the indentation level, something like this: > > > > Done. As for explicit CRs, it's force of habit for me to hit return > > at the end of each line, it comes from my beginings of using pine > > which just scrolled over when your lines ran long. > > Ah, but then you're working around the problem. Most people who use > these mailers let the "editor" do the line wrap for them, but it's too > stupid to distinguish between what you enter and what was there > before. But the work around came from a problem with a very common unix-based mailer, not Netscape, so that makes it okay, right? :-) -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message