jcantara wrote regarding '[OT] Paragraph Formatting; was "How to read Battery voltage with PIC"' on Tue, Nov 15 at 15:43:
> > Your message got cut off somewhere.  When are people finally going to learn not to send paragraphs as single long lines!?
> 
> This is off-topic, but that's the correct way to do things, IMO. Why set some arbitrary line-length that may not work for everybody? Why not just use a mail client that knows how to do word-wrap if the line is too long (shouldn't they all?).

I find it amusing that the line complaining about not wrapping
paragraphs was 123 characters long.  If someone's gonna wrap lines,
I'd expect their wrap point to be less than the standard 80-char
terminal width.  I expect all plain text to be under 80 chars, in
fact, and email should *always* be plain text (HTML and RTF are for
presentation, not communication - if color and fonts are required, the
communicating is being done incorrectly).

Looking at the quoted text above, most mailiers will see that there's
a '>' inserted at the beginning of the line.  Since the lines aren't
wrapped, though, someone (like me) on an 80-char terminal sees one
quoted line and 1-3 unquoted lines, making it difficult to read
without the benefit of colored quote levels (which I also have).
Because lots of mailiers default to wrapping, I wrap my lines in order
to somewhat head-off the damage those mailiers will do when they fail
to insert the quote chars properly after wrapping.  When typing to
anyone with an @yahoo.com address, I re-wrap everything at 50 chars
because that seems to properly fit in the text box they reply with.

BTW, vim will re-wrap quoted text in email properly.  Select
everything in visual mode and type "gq".  Quotes and all get fixed.

--Danny, grumpy old-time Internet user :)
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