Danny Sauer wrote:
> 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).

That's a pretty major generalization. :)

> 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.

I also see > when using a text reader, and my email reader of choice 
(emacs :) will re-wrap lines nicely.  I would really have to say that 
any email reader, text or graphical, that cannot re-wrap for 
presentation is broken.  After all, if your reader isn't doing something 
that trivial, it isn't allowing you to communicate correctly :)

--Michael
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