[ICOM] Does this "bug" you?

[Dick Flanagan]

I will make one comment and then I will close this Topic...

This total lack of carriage-returns/linefeeds is 
usually not the fault of the individual 
sender.  Notice that in the attached message he 
is responding to all of the CR/LF characters are 
missing from there, too.  There is no way some 
guy is going to go to all the trouble of removing 
them by hand before he sends his own response.

This is the fault of the sender's e-mail 
client.  I often see it with web-based 
clients.  It is particularly bad when their are 
no line breaks at all and all you get are a half-dozen 500-character lines.

When I see these I just delete them.  Hopefully, 
when the sender sees his own message coming back 
to him on the reflector he will see what a mess 
it is and do something to fix it.

Fortunately, they are become fewer and fewer and 
e-mail clients become more sophisticated.

Now, having had the last word, this Topic is officially closed!

Dick

At 07:02 AM 10/27/2010, someone wrote:
 >
 >I don't wish to point fingers nor do I wish
 >publicly criticize what others have written  -
 >but -  would it be asking too much for the writer
 >to insert a <CR> or two and line feeds on their
 >text?  Most often I see this emanating from
 >hand-held devices and, most likely, the writer
 >has no idea of how it looks to the recipients.
 >
 >Not wanting to start a flame war, just asking.
 >
 >73  <>  Carl
 >
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 >>Message----- >From: Anna ostensson
 >><annamajken at hotmail.com> >Sent: Oct 27, 2010
 >>7:28 AM >To: icom at mailman.qth.net >Subject:
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