Re: Message police

rob@dekko.com writes:

> By the way, I now see the way my email spreads out reply to's into multiple
>  lines.  I don't know why.

This is an easy one to explain.  I think.

e-mail handlers are like word processors.  They are not all identical 
software processing stuff the same identical way, with reasonable programming 
standards.

I will send out perfectly sane sentences like these examples, but the width 
of my text lines, depending on font I use, point size etc. will support a 
different character count across the page.  Now instead of the text flowing 
nicely across pages with whatever fits with wrap-around like I am accustomed 
to seeing on my word processor, instead we get something like this:

I will send out perfectly sane sentences like these examples, but
the width of my 
text lines, depending on font I use, point size etc. will support a 
different character 
count across the page.  Now instead of the text flowing nicely
across pages with whatever fits with wrap-around like I am 
accustomed to seeing on
my word processor, instead we get something like this:

and in some cases the new line control uses some characters that some other 
e-mail software cannot exactly translate, so instead what I see is:

I will send out perfectly sane sentences like these examples, 
but the width of my 
=20= text lines, depending on font I use, point size etc. will support 
a different =20= 
character count across the page.  Now instead of the text flowing 
nicely across 
=20= pages with whatever fits with wrap-around like I am accustomed to 
seeing on my =20= word processor, instead we get something like this:

I have not put as much crapola into the body of this example as what I 
usually see, so as to explain the mechanics to you.

Alister William Macintyre 
Computer Data Janitor etc. of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 on 400 model 170 OS4 V4R3 
(forerunner to IBM e-Server i-Series 400)  @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central 
Industries of Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and 
electrical sub-assemblies

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