Russell McMahon wrote:
> I can obviously see the merit in this 'suggestion' BUT I greatly
> dislike the mess caused when various systems truncate lines at
> different but similar lengths and the lines then have varying numbers
> of quoting characters added to the front.

Yes, there is no easy way to deal with this.  And note that allowing
arbitrarily long lines doesn't solve it either.  I think the best solution
would be for mail clients to not automatically wrap outgoing lines that
start with ">", on the assumption that they are quoted lines being replied
to.  Readers would also have to present them unwrapped.  This process would
work up to a few levels of quotation until the unwrapped lines exceed the
window width, which is hopefully somewhat wider than the normal outgoing
wrap width.  That system would be better than what we have now, but still
not foolproof.  Of course whatever way I think it should be done is
pointless since OE and other popular mailers do what they do and aren't
likely to change.

I run OEQuoteFix, which definltely helps.  Sometimes it actually messes
things up a bit, but on the whole it helps a lot more than it hurts.


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