On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:06:19AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Andreas Janssen wrote:
Kent West (<westk@acu.edu>) wrote:
Mild Netiquette Training:
4] Use line wrapping
Is my text not wrapping?
It looks fine to me. What's happening is that your mailer is using the
format=flowed extension (RFC 2646, standards track). This involves it
putting "format=flowed" in the content-type, ending every line in a
paragraph except the last with a space, and otherwise wrapping lines
normally. format=flowed allows mailers that are aware of it to
intelligently wrap paragraphs in replies without fear of corrupting
preformatted text.
In other words, what your mailer is doing is *good*. Mailers that are
unaware of format=flowed degrade to displaying the text normally
wrapped. The people who've complained at you are using mailers that are
aware of format=flowed and have a wide area available for displaying
text. I'd say that if they see wide text as a result then it's their own
problem. :) Perhaps these mailers can be configured not to unwrap
format=flowed text so vigorously?
Cheers,