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Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0



On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:38:40PM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2013-10-14, berenger.morel@neutralite.org <berenger.morel@neutralite.org> wrote:
> >
> > Now that you say it, it's obvious.
> > I was simply thinking that HTML was the source of the problem, because 
> > I only noticed such problems with HTML mails. Was a stupid reasoning.
> >
> I can see how one might think that the noobs who use html for simple
> text messages on mailing lists are the same exact noobs who don't know
> enough to wrap their fricking lines.
> 
> But actually there are two overlapping sets, A and B, of which the
> intersection (A ∩ B) consists of noobs who both use html and write long,
> unwrapped lines that go off the screen--exit, stage right--the worst of
> both worlds, so to speak.

If you use the webmail interface, this can happen also. Even if you
change to plain/text mode the long lines still occur unless you
explicitly insert a return/enter, yourself.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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