Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linefeeds.

It would perhaps be helpful if those who are transgressing could be
identified as they may not be aware of the problem. Some mail readers
automatically wrap long lines when they are recieved and so, if people are
using these, they will not know that they are causing offence as, even
though they get a copy of their own message, it will be wrapped and look OK
to them. For those using Outlook Express it may be worth you just checking
in 'Tools, Options, Send' that under 'Mail Sending Options' Plain Text is
checked and then hit the 'Plain Text Options' button and check that the
'wrap text after' box has around 75 in it.
In Netscape look in 'Edit, Preferences, Mail and Newsgroups, Messages' and
see that the 'message wrapping' section has the 'wrap incoming messages to
window width' box is checked and that the 'wrap outgoing messages to' box
has about 72 in it. This should cause the least offence as these are
probably the most used programs.
Conversely to this problem, I get frustrated by messages which are peppered
with CR/LFs and, when you want to print them out, produce only a slim column
down the left side of eack page and use reams of paper. This, of course, is
one of the problems of the Internet - so many different modes of access that
it is impossible to achieve a universally acceptable standard, however, for
this very reason, some tolerance is needed and everyone should check their
own systems carefully before criticising others as there is often a solution
to the problem lurking somewhere in your own box.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: D.F.S. <dfs@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: 07 April 2000 23:19
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linefeeds.


> >
> > D.F.S. wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Please fix you mail program.
> > > Make it add line feeds, it is VERY ugly and hard to follow.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I coulden't agree more. There are a few people on this list
> > who's messages look the same, one long line. I always thought
> > it had something to do with my mail program (netscape) since
> > email from microsoft is the same way.
> >
> It's nothing personal to people generating it, and they probably
> never see it themselves or realize it's happening.
>
> The problem is whatever they are using to send messages wraps the
> line as they type, but doesn't insert a CR and/or a LF.
>
> The standard on the internet is to have them, and most stuff
> expects them and it looks horrible when someone pulls it up
> on a system with different font spacing, tab-stops, wider or
> narrower screen and simply ralls off the right hand side of the
> screen on others.
>
>
> I could not have posted a decent reply to such a post without
> adding in 2 dozen lines-feeds and they attribution markers, the
> '>' above for example.
>
>
> Marc
>
>
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