Hmm, I'm no expert on this, but it seems to be a little more complicated
than this to me. I notice that messages that go thru a reflector appear
different from message that do not go thru a reflector.
Whether you have you email browser set to format in HTML or not, the
reflector will try to reformat it into HTML code for display in the
archives. End-of-line hard carriage returns are inserted for this
purpose. The email messages that the reflector then sends to individuals
will also contain these end-of-line carriage returns.
If you receive a message from someone and it doesn't go thru a
reflector, it will not have hard carriage returns (unless the individual
manually inserted them), and your browser or any other text program will
be able to word wrap the text automatically.
I use Netscape for email, and I have never received an email that was
displayed all on one line. If you view a web page that has no carriage
returns, I think you will see everything on one line.
I suspect the problem may be that the reflector software is having a
hard time determining the format of the incoming message, and not
handling it correctly. This is just my observation, but I'm no software
expert.
Jerry, K4SAV
Jim Brown wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:43:51 -0500, WW3S wrote:
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>>I think the problem is the senders
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>Different parts of the problem lie with senders and receivers and
>their email software. Tower Talk, and most email lists, use plain
>text, NOT html.
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>When corresponding with an email list, your email software should be
>set for NO html formatting. Your software should also be set to
>insert line breaks for something on the order of 60-72 characters
>per line. Good email software allows that. The lines that go on
>forever are caused by email software that is not inserting line
>breaks, and by the reading software not "wrapping" incoming lines.
>
>For many years, I've used PMMail, a very nice email app that started
>out life in OS2, then expanded to the Windoze world. It does all of
>these stuff quite nicely. There are several good alternatives.
>
>Jim K9YC
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