On Aug 28, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>> I've been composing
>> mail mostly without newlines, counting on the fact that SOMEONE was
>> inserting them at some point.
>
> That's a bad idea in any case.
	:
> The best defense, as it's always been, is to send email as plain text 
> with
> lines not exceeding 80 characters.  Most email clients have settings to
> automatically wrap your long lines to somewhere between 72 and 80 
> characters.

In truth, this is what I thought was happening.  Since this particular 
account
is used almost exclusively for PICLIST at the moment, I didn't notice 
bad
behavior until the new server (presumably) stopped doing the wrapping.

MacOSX's Mail.app doesn't seem to.  It's particularly annoying in that 
it
does wrap at word boundries in the composition area, so it LOOKS like 
it's
doing a reasonable thing.  It's annoyingly difficult in this day and age
to figure out how wide "80 columns" is, even if you're composing in a 
fixed
width font; the rest of the window ISN'T in a fixed-width font.  sigh.

BillW

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