>    Why not simply grab the text, paste it into the email and go from there.

It was a RESUME.  A nominally formatted document about which the author was
specifically asking for comments.  You really don't want your resume looking
sloppy, whether that's because the lines are 160 characters long, got cut
off when the HR drone printed it out, or because outlook reformatted it in
obvious ways that were completely incompatible with the way the rest of the
resume was formatted.

I'm a bit ambivilant about long lines in normal emails.  The way my mail
reader tends to wrap lines doesn't look very good.  I suppose it all goes
back to whether the author or the reader should have more control over the
formatting of a "document."  HTML was designed for reader-based formatting,
and authors go to great lengths to defeat that.  Go figure.

BTW, in this case I looked at the .txt file with netscape (the browser, not
the mail reader), and it DIDN'T wrap the lines.  I got a nice scroll bar at
the bottom of the page so I could look at the extra stuff if I was so
inclined.  Really icky...


    There is absolutely NOTHING worse than taking a piece of text that has
    carriage returns or any other line feed character at the end and try to
    bring it into a page layout application, word processor or html editor.

Hmm.  An interesting point.  I wonder why - I can't think of any reason
that it should HAVE to be that way, technically speaking.  Unwrapping
text is much easier than wrapping it.  I guess lousy text import
functions date back to the early days of microsoft word and are
continued for backward compatibility reasons...   :-)

BillW

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