Jonathan, hit the enter key. I fell off my chair following your one liners all the way out. Tom On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 10:00 AM 4/27/2001 +0200, you wrote:
* Jonathan Wilson [Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:13:43 -0500]:
1. I was wrong to post this in the first palce - that's nothing wrong with the RPM, it's for both apache and roxen
First of all, could you in future please wrap your line at something less than 75 chars?
No, I could not. I do not like line wrapping because it messes up code examples very badly, and also on long topic-threads, line wrapping causes ugly formatting in the form of one-word and one-character lines that make things difficult to read. If you, or anyone, does not like long lines, you should find a mail reader that does the wrapping for you.
WRONG!
Please note that you were not asked to use AUTOMATIC linewrapping. Just hit enter every 70 characters or so.
The reason you should wrap lines is: a mail-COMPOSER should NOT reformat your text when I reply. Therefore, if you do not wrap your lines, any decent mail-composer will simply leave that long line as it is, thereby PRESERVING any code examples you might have written. However, the composer has NO WAY to differentiate between normal text and code, so your normal text will ALSO be left as one long line, which will of course only get a single quote-character at the beginning.
Result: long lines give ugly and confusing quotes.
I makes much more sense for people who want line wrapping to find a reader that wraps rather then asking everyone on the net to wrap it before they send.
This is simply arrogant! Some people read their mail at work or some other place, where they have NO CHOICE about their mail-software.
Sorry.
It makes reading your mail much easier in some text mode mail readers and it's also standard netiquette.
Sorry again, but I think maybe you'd be happier with a reader that did wrapping for you.
My READER does wrapping just fine to whatever size its window is. My COMPOSER also wraps just fine, but of course only my text. (Unless I specifically tell it to wrap the text I am replying to).
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