RE: [topicmaps-comment] Email line-wrapping etiquette

["Seidl, Andy" <Andy.Seidl@Starbase.com>]

Title: RE: [topicmaps-comment] Email line-wrapping etiquette

<two-cents-worth>

Of course there's the option of using a more intelligent e-mail client.
Doing so eliminates the burden of worrying about something that
people should not be spending brain cycles on; it means that all those
existing long-lined messages become no problem; and it allows each
client more flexibility to format messages so they look good on
*their* device.

It would not really be
reasonable to expect people
to enter text like this
for the benefit of folks
using a dumb mail client
on an iPAQ.

Or worse,
like this
for web
phones.

</two-cents-worth>

  -- fas

-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Altheim [mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 08:32 PM
Cc: topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [topicmaps-comment] Email line-wrapping etiquette

Sorry to be bringing up something so trivial.

I wonder if people could perhaps either hit a return at 80 characters
or so, or set their email software to do what people have done manually
for over two decades, ie., responsibly handle their line wrapping.
 
A substantial number of messages coming over this list are four or five
lines that are four to five *feet* wide, which makes it quite difficult
to read, and responding to these messages means people must put line
wraps into your text.

It's sad that I must send this message out in the year 2001. Many of
us had much higher hopes for user software...

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         <mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com>
XML Technology Center
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      The rice leaves in the garden
      Rustle in the autumn wind
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