page width
Peter Hatch
phatch at mojowire.com
Thu Nov 11 02:12:06 UTC 1999
I sure hope not. I hate to sound atavistic here, but I just don't see any
benefit from all of this fancy colored text in email. The emails I get from
some of the folks that work in my company are just ludicrous. There's 1 line
of information, and then 10 lines of colorful multi-font signature. I find it
to be simply disruptive....
Of course, that's just me (living in my little *nix corner of the world).
And, of course, this is totally off topic :-)
> In the long run, people will use HTML.
>
> LaTeX or other invented formats aren't sufficiently better (better =
> meaning less features in this case).
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Lex Spoon=20
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu=20
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 8:51 pm
> Subject: Re: page width
>
>
> Agreed. Many readers can handle the un-wrapped text, but why =
> pointlessly be a headache for those that can't? There's a clear standard =
> for Internet email, and trying to muscle in a new one just isn't polite.
> In the long run, people should probably use "enriched text" in their =
> email to get the nice paragraph refilling behavior. Enriched text is =
> like LaTeX: one line-end makes a soft break, and two line-ends make a =
> hard break. Smart recieving programs can then feel free to automatically =
> refill paragraphs, and dumb receiving programs will still get something =
> that looks okay (assuming the sending program formats to 72 or so =
> characters per line).
> I'll try and send this message as text/enriched, so people can see how =
> it works....
> Lex
>
>
>
> Rick Zaccone wrote: > Well, my mail reader doesn't wrap incoming =
> messages either. I think > it's best to send mail in a format that most =
> likely to look good to > everyone. > > 1. Wrap outgoing text. > > 2. =
> Don't use tabs. Unix expands them to 8 spaces, Mac and Windows to > 4 =
> spaces. > > 3. Don't use accented characters. > > 4. Don't use HTML. > > =
> etc. > > Rick > -- > zaccone at bucknell.edu=20
>
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