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Number   :  3825
Date     :  2003-02-23
Author   :  CBFalconer
Subject  :  Re: The Posting Style.
Size(KB) :  1


"ray_mccormick " wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> On Kan's comment on line length how can this be adjusted? [I use
> OE5.5... for mail and IE5.5... for internet postings to the group].
> Interestingly enough his posting, message 12 of digest 576, displayed
> with a maximum line length of about 40 characters when viewed
> maximised leaving much white space on the right. This is too short. I
> agree that about 60 to 65 characters would give copy which was very
> readable. But again, how do I do that? Do I have to insert extra line
> feeds after every 65 characters?
> 
I have no idea on OE, because I won't let it in the house. 
However most mailers have a provision for setting outgoing message
line wrap length. In Netscape 4.7x it is in
Edit/Mail&Messages/Messages.

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> 
> However on the subject of snipping, (a part of) what one
> correspondent would snip would be useful to another reader and so
> snipping must be used with care. For example Message 15 of digest 576
> gives no indication of the context.
> 
> [A search of the group listing showed 576_12 is 3812 and 576_15 is
> 3815]

Such numbers have absolutely no meaning outside the html browser
access. I use email distribution, and a filter redirects this
list to its own group here. After that it gets threaded, which
depends on the subject line and the 'references' header linkages
(the 'references' linkages do not appear in anything here -
something at the other end strips them). So the list is
transferred bodily whenever I connect to my ISP, and read later
offline. This reply will be physically shipped on my next
connection.

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Chuck F (cbfalconer@y...) (cbfalconer@w...)
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