[SM-Discuss] [OT:wrapping] Request for comments - formating in spells

Juuso Alasuutari iuso at sourcemage.org
Wed Jul 23 10:07:54 EDT 2008


Thomas Orgis wrote:
>> PS: Your e-mail client doesn't seem to wrap lines, had to wrap the 
>> quoted text myself.
> 
> I boldly hijack this complaint:
> 
> 1. You didn't seem to get it right (all quoted lines but the first are
> off by one space).
> 
> 2. You poor soul use an email editor that, when wrapping quoted lines,
> is too dumb to properly quote the wraps?
> 
> 3. _My_ email client/editor doesn't wrap lines unless I explicitly tell
> it to. It do not want to impose an arbitrary screen width on readers of
> my postings. Though, I try to respect the wish of some readers of
> SM-discuss to have 80-column text and thus trigger wrapping for
> postings to this list - but sometimes I forget, like in my previous
> mail in a different thread (sorry, Andrew).
> 
> 4. Yeah, we arrived at an eMail formatting discussion, via code
> formatting discussion!
> 
> 5. I do not want to start flaming about this. Of course I do, though.
> Sorry.
> 
> 6. Never mind.

RRRROAR! My email client's dad is stronger than your email client's dad!

In other words, I second section 6. :)

Juuso


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