Re: continuation character [was Folder name from alias]
Re: continuation character [was Folder name from alias]
- Subject: Re: continuation character [was Folder name from alias]
- From: SemiColon <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:28:35 -0800
At 4:45 PM -0800 12/8/00, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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It seems you're not aware that most email software can't turn off
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hard-wrapping in sending plain text. It's actually an internet standard
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protocol that plain text should hard-wrap, so email clients that adhere to
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the proper standard (such as OE and Entourage) can't do it. Email clients
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that have format=flowed (only Eudora, I believe) can do this without
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breaking standards, but only clients also with format=flowed can read it
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(again, only Eudora), There are other email clients which don't mind
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breaking the standards (like yours)
Huh, didn't you just say that my email client has format=flowed?
I'm on Eudora.
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Email clients
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that have format=flowed (only Eudora, I believe) can do this without
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breaking standards
(?)
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and then we can all see the soft-wrapped
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lines. Sending in HTML also allows softwrapping, but a lot of people object
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to HTML (especially if they are using Claris Emailer, which can't read it,
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and get tags-garbage.)
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So, there's really no solution until everyone has either format=flowed or
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breaks internet standards, or until people eventually accept HTML. In the
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meantime, we have to make do.
Too bad. Here's to the list getting fixed!
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