Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linefeeds.

Hi Bertho,

At the moment it is still not really a good idea to use HTML for email,
particularly on lists simply because a lot of people are still using
equipment which won't respond to its formatting. You need to remember that
these lists are open to anyone and that includes many people who are on very
basic networked machines. Amongst these are a lot of machines which are
running UNIX on networks and the only mail programs they have are like Pine
or other text-only based programs. When you send an HTML message it contains
a load of extra characters for formatting which the text-based programs
simply display as they receive them, leaving the poor recipient to try to
make sense of the page full of little square boxes, paragraph signs, odd
digits etc., with the message sprinkled in between. For this reason I would
recommend that everyone resists the temptation to proudly display the
graphic and coloured background capabilities of their latest gimmiky
microsquat program and sticks to plain text for their messages. Mail to
one's friends is, of course, a different matter as you are likely to know
the capabilities of their machines.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: Bertho Boman <boman@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: 08 April 2000 12:42
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linefeeds.


> Ian and everyone else,
> It did not work!
> I just checked my own message and the auto-line wrapping apparently only
applies to "plain text" mode. I have the HTML turn on to
> get a nicer font and it inserted CRLFs at the window size I used to
compose the message (it was wide). So much for my theory and
> goal of universal compatibility. I do not know why it is inserting the
CRLFs or how to disable it. I also forgot to mention that I
> am using Netscape 4.7.