[pianotech] word wrap in archives

[David Ilvedson]

I just optioned plain text only...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Scott Jackson" <scottwaynejackson at hotmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 4/12/2009 6:19:35 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] word wrap in archives


>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