[Elecraft] Avoiding those long lines of text we struggle to read!

[Phil Kane]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:03:30 -0600, Leo Bricker K5LDB wrote:

> Unless one is typing on a manual typewriter or has reached the
> end of a paragraph and is hitting return to add a blank line
> before the next paragraph then one shouldn't put a linefeed in
> their message in my opinion. 

  That is all well and good if the e-mail sending program wraps
  (i.e. automatically inserts LF/CR) each line in your above-
  described "stream of consciousness" type text - what my
  wordprocessor calls "MS-ASCII Text"- not only on the text
  presented to the composer but also in the outgoing message.
  My e-mail program allows me to use a full-screen text editor
  which wraps at 70 characters per line and spell-checks each
  message prior to accepting it for sending.

  Not all e-mail programs will do the wrap on received text.
  Mine, for instance, is very polite -- if you send me a message
  with 300 characters in a row it will display all 300 characters
  in a single line if there are no LF/CRs in it.

  I get around that by hitting the delete key.   I spend most of
  each day reading and answering professional and personal e-mail
  and usenet messages, and won't waste my time and emotions
  reformatting a message that the sender could have but failed to
  format before sending.  I'd rather spend my time working 40
  meters.....

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

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