ANST - Line lengths .. ad nauseum

[j'lynn yeates]

On 1 Jun 98, at 8:55, dssweet at okway.okstate.edu wrote:

>      I'm not sure how this will appear on everyone else's monitors, but
>      the above is almost unreadable. Those messages of unlimited length
>      tend to have approximately 3 letters "lost" (& I'm not talking about
>      what you scroll over to see at the right, these letters have been
>      deleted) at the end of every line which makes it very difficult to
>      read. And if it's hard to read, I tend not to read it. 'wolf is not
>      the only person who's posts do this, but it's just the example.
>      Please, everyone, line length limits are good things.

problem is not universal ... realated to the readers email client and how it's set to 
handle "long" lines.  had a couple of people here self-rightously slagging me about 
similar problems ... until they looked at same messages on a different machine (email 
client) and saw exactly the formatting that was expected.  lesson here, the problem is 
not always what you assume it to be

on the bigger field, there are a whole new crop of email clients out there that are 
rapidly taking their place as next generation industry standards (Outlook, Netscape, 
Eudora, Pegasus ...) that are extending the old accepted standards and seemingly 
dealing with them in differing ways .. this often leaves older client software in the lurch, 
but then change and growth usually causes some level of destabilization and 
discomfort ... such is the process.  

such evolutionary trends in fast moving areas like online communication will not slow 
or stop, they will only develop faster as vendors attempt to catch up to the desires of 
the user base.  best recommendation i can give, flow with the river .... 

granted that there is a known bug (reported) in pegasus 3.1a that causes problems 
with line wrappings and does not always respect the right margin settings ... but i am 
not seeing the 3 charcter truncation that you report (the message in question displays 
fine in Pegasus and Outlook at this end) ... the line wrap problem should be corrected 
in next release (due soon).  

simply an annoyance that will go away in near future ... now that it's been explained 
yet again, can we please stop beating a dead horse ... it's not overly productive

'wolf
... easier to stop the movement of the sun or the tides than slow the development and 
change on the net
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