The receiver can wrap the long lines in Netscape Communicator by clicking on
"View" and going down and clicking on "Wrap Long Lines."
Chuck, KZ5MM
"Dick Green". wrote:
> Hi folks. Sorry to intrude with something that's sort-of off topic. This is
> about problems with messages I'm sending through the reflector, so in that
> sense it's very on-topic to me. If I've had a couple of complaints on two
> different reflectors (including this one) that the lines in my messages are
> not wrapping properly. The receivers say that each paragraph is one long
> line, and they have to horizontally scroll to read them. I've gotten messages
> like this myself, and they're a pain to read.
>
> I'm using Microsoft Outlook Express. I have MIME format set, with text
> encoding set to Quoted Printable (I think these are the defaults.) The other
> option is to select UUENCODED text, which gives me the option of
> automatically inserting a line wrap after a specified number of characters
> (e.g., 76.) Since MIME doesn't have this option, I must assume that MIME
> sends each paragraph as one long line, expecting the receiving software to
> wrap the lines according to the display window size. That way, the windows
> used by the sender and receiver do not have to be the same size. I'd rather
> not use UUENCODED format, because if my message is displayed by someone with
> a window size less than my wrap parameter, the text will be ragged.
>
> Are others having problems reading my messages, too? Can anyone shed some
> light on this formatting issue?
>
> By the way, I've also had a complaint from K7LXC himself that he cannot just
> hit reply to may messages. His e-mail package doesn't seem to be able to
> process my return address, so he has to cut and paste from the source.
> Anybody else having that problem?
>
> Finally, you've probably noticed the quote marks around my name. This seems
> to happen only when my messages go through certain reflectors. I have been
> unable to make any configuration change to Outlook Express to get rid of the
> quotes, and have never gotten any help on the Outlook Express reflector (no
> quotes around my name there, of course.) Anybody know anything about this?
>
> 73, Dick, WC1M
>
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