It is my experience that Netscape will wrap lines for messages that you
create, but not incoming messages. I use Netscape to read mail at work
and have to suffer those long lines as well. If you know how to
configure Netscape to wrap incoming messages I'd like to know how.
Thanks,
	mkd

Doug Way wrote:
> 
> I don't want to drag this subject out too long, but hopefully this will be
> a semi-definitive answer.
> 
> There are two different ways in which text email can travel around the
> world:
> 
> 1.  The message text can have <cr>'s inserted by the outgoing email
> program, normally every 75 or 80 or so columns.  This way, someone else's
> email reader won't have to worry about how to compose the text.
> 
> Or,
> 
> 2.  The message text will not have any extra <cr>'s inserted by the
> outgoing email program, it will only have <cr>'s at the end of each
> paragraph, which is how an email message is normally typed in.  In this
> case, the recipient's email reader will have to be configured to wrap long
> lines (most are by default), otherwise the recipient will have to do a lot
> of horizontal scrolling, as Albert described.
> 
> (Well, there's also 3. The message text will be in a non-text format such
> as html or Microsoft Word, which I won't comment on, except to say that it
> is a bad thing. :-) )
> 
> Most outgoing email software tends to insert <cr>'s as in #1.  Some don't,
> though, including Craig's emailer.
> 
> The question is, is it the responsibility of the outgoing mail software to
> add the <cr>'s (#1), or should it be the responsibility of the email
> reader to do this (#2)?  I believe the answer is #2.  So, Albert should
> configure his email reader to wrap long lines of text.  (Any modern email
> reader will let you do this... e.g. Netscape, Outlook, (hopefully
> Celeste), etc.)  Craig shouldn't have to do anything.
> 
> In fact, the world would probably be a better place if everyone followed
> #2, since adding new <cr>'s to messages forwarded several times starts to
> make them unreadable.
> 
> Also, if your email reader lets you set the number of columns at which to
> wrap (I know Netscape does), you'll probably want to set it to something
> like 90 columns, so that you don't get a nasty double-wrapping effect on
> emails that already have <cr>'s inserted.
> 
> - Doug Way
>   dway at mat.net
> 
> I'd call myself an artist
> If I could make these feelings clear
> But there's a million things to think about
> When you're cutting off your ear
>                 - Scott Miller
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM wrote:
>