Hi all,
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, the digest contained:
> ...
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:38:23 -0400
> From: Beryl Pine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Perspective !
>
> Rob
> I would love to read your messsage but it runs on way past my right hand
> margin. Why is this - somehing to do with wrap-around?
> Beryl
> ...
This is a common 'Net-ism of folks who are relatively new to
the 'Net. The problem is that these folks tend to treat their
mailer as if it were a common word processor. That is to say
that they depend on the word-wrap capability that *their* mail
software has assuming that everybody else uses the same software.
Then there are those other folks (like me :-) ) who don't use
these new-fangled mailers and actually prefer the other types of
mailers that don't have a word-wrap capability. For us, the mes-
sages from the others looks like "it runs on way past my right
hand margin." What prevents this problem, of course, is to press
the carriage return at the end of a line like we had to do with
the old typewriters.
Mail software is not the same as word processing software. (I
had an opinion I was going to present here. But, I'll just an-
swer the question. That way, I'll keep this note shorter than
one of my more typical e--mail-novels. :-) ) Press the return or
enter key once in a while. That way, more people will be able to
read it successfully.
Bill--
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