} BTW, as a point of list etiquette: Responding to most posts I let my
} lines wrap
} but resonding to yours, which seem to alway have fixed line width, I try to
} match that style, but looking at the returned posts from the list, they
} sometimes
} sproing badly. Should I try to keep to your width, or just let lines wrap?
The above is what your text would look like if I didn't run it through
a reformatter. It Used To Be that everyone assumed text should be
folded to be readable on an 80-column display, which, as a guy still
using the email program I wrote myself 20 years ago, I still do. Then
along came HTML format email, and everybody assumed text should never be
wrapped at all (let the reader's UI deal with it). Except there's still
this pesky thing about mailing lists preferring plain text, so we end up
with a hypbrid where text as you write it is folded to be readable at
whatever your display width is set, but then it gets re-folded to 80
when you send it -- except that it also keeps any real newlines you
entered, so if you were actually trying to make it look nice, it ends
up like the above instead.