Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:10:32 -0800 From: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Benson <bradley@softhome.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) Message-ID: <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net> References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> <37046B4D.47BC1A7E@uswest.net> <19990402163727.C413@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 23:01:33 -0800, Nocturne wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > <snip> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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
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