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[TowerTalk] OT: Format and reply probs with my e-mail

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Subject: [TowerTalk] OT: Format and reply probs with my e-mail
From: dietz@texas.net (C. Logan Dietz)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:00:11 -0600
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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