[pianotech] word wrap in archives

[Scott Jackson]

David,
Strangely, your message below looks fine to me when viewed at
http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/2009-April/007420.html but
previous messages at
http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/2009-April/007155.html and
http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/2009-April/007158.html do exhibit
the problem of which you speak. The problem occurs when our mail software
converts html mail messages into plain text to store in the archive. If you
look at a message from someone who always sends plain text, there is no
problem eg.
http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/2009-April/007022.html.

So, the possible solutions that I can see are:

1. Try to get everyone on the list to only send plain text messages, not
html formatted. This has been tried over and over without success over very
many years. You could lead by example by turning off your own "Rich Text
(html)" format and only sending "Plain Text". I am just as guilty of
forgetting this myself.

2. Suggest to Microsoft to add a "Word Wrap" option to Internet Explorer, as
is available in other programs such as Notepad. You may have more success
with an open source browser at http://www.mozilla.org/ , as someone may be
able to add such an option as an Add-on or Extention.

3. Learn how our Mailman software works, and maybe you will find a solution.
The manual can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html .

Best of luck,

Scott Jackson


----- Original Message ----- 

    Computers are so exasperating!  It's a wonder anything at all gets done
with them.
    When I go to the archives, lines of my posts spread waaaaayyyyy to the
right.   In Windows Mail, under Tools, Options, Send, I have word wrap set
to 72 characters both in Mail (HTML) and News (Plain text) format.  (You can
only set the word wrap if there's no encoding.)  But on my computer screen
(Windows Mail), the lines are as much as 140 characters long.   That's OK
'cause when you shrink the window, the lines automatically fit the new
smaller window.
    But back to the archives -- how does one fix it so the characters don't
stretch from Denver to Kansas?

    --David Nereson, RPT