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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:02:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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I understand why you chose a personal reply, but I'd still rather keep it
on the list.  Thanks.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Chris Metcalf wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  I'll try again with 1.5.7.
>
Or, preferably with the latest snapshot to assure it really is fixed.
Please :-).

> I must have searched on the wrong lists, since I didn't see the
> changelog you quoted.
>
No.  It wasn't on a list, but in CVS.

> At 02:47 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
> >Please try to configure your mailer to wrap at <= 80 characters per line.
>
> And now for the religious part of this reply :-)
>
> Seriously: I wrapped at 80 characters for about 15 years, and recently
> decided that line-wrapping is a presentation issue, and should be
> handled by the mail client.  This also enables better use of variable
> font sizes and different screen widths.
>
True, but it is an ancient standard, and there are still plenty of
clients that make this sort of message difficult to read.  Also, check out
what it does to the mailing list archives:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg01209.html

Scrolling that much to read a post is a *real* pain.

> Admittedly, this transition was precipitated by my switch to a GUI
> mail client (Eudora) when I had to stop using ucb mail and pine :-)
>
Eudora is nice (my limited experience with it is about six years old, and
I was in the Mac world at the time), but I still prefer pine :-).

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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