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

[C. Logan Dietz]

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.
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> 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.
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> Are others having problems reading my messages, too? Can anyone shed some light on this formatting issue?
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 73, Dick, WC1M
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