Re: [Swprograms] OT: Beware XM Roady XT

[Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,
While your choice is ideal in the perfect world, I do realize
that there are lots of e-mail readers, particularly in the
Windows world, that will not automatically word-wrap at the
recipients end either.  I have not been able to make heads or
tails of this, as sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

While I too have also been frustrated when cutting/pasting text
to need to delete carriage returns, as a recipient there is also
nothing I hate more while reading e-mail than having to
constantly scroll my browser to the right and left to deal with
e-mail messages that my browser is not word wrapping.  Same goes
with frustrations with websites that won't adjust to my screen
or browsers screen width and insist on running things off to the
right, wider than 800 pixels, and in many cases wider than 1024.

In other words, you can't win at everything.  What helps some
people ends up creating problems for others, and you
unfortunately cannot know ahead of time which it will be, as
there is no consistency on the Internet and any given list will
have people of both categories.

At least you turned off the style-text issue, which was the
biggest help, especially for people who read lists by digest.

Kevin Anderson

--- Joseph Buch <joseph.buch@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for your observation.  A long time ago (1995) I was one
> of the editors of the Cumbre DX e-mail newsletter.  I always
> dreaded having to go into the submissions from DXers and
> delete all the carriage returns at the end of each line so
> when the input was copied into the newsletter with different
> line lengths I did not end up with short and long lines all in
> the same paragraph.  Then I received one message from a
> certain DXer that I did not have to do this with.  It made
> editing so much easier.  I figured out what was going on.  Now
> I think everyone should should disable word wrap on outgoing
> messages.  That way the receiving system will automatically
> adjust for the display font size and monitor pixel setting.  I
> know most do not and I presume that is because "word wrap on"
> is usually a default mode.  So I have deliberately unselected
> word wrap on outgoing messages to ease the life of anyone
> wishing to resend and reformat my missives for publication. I
> was unaware that so!
>  me e-mail programs do not have the ability to wrap
> automatically on received messages as at least an option. 
> Unless somebody complains, I will leave it set as is.
> 
> At 10:31 AM 8/13/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >                (Course your above text is one (1)
> >                long line and some mailers don't
> >                have word wrap on, but that's their
> >                problem.
> >
> >                                                D. Sa
> 
> 
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