Re: I'll bet you a ham sandwich

On Sep 21, 4:50 pm, WJhonson <wjhon...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps it's only a problem for people who use News readers that do not automatically wrap lines? Maybe Google Groups does wrap lines? Or maybe in the hoary past I set some options there to do it? Perhaps there is a setting in other news readers *to* automatically wrap lines?


Everything you describe is as expected. That blue line you see on
your mail editor is a hallmark of the Microsoft way of doing things.
When you look at your text in Google Groups, it is autowrapped, but
without carriage returns added. When someone else quotes it, it look
like above - one chevron at the beginning, then autowrapped text.
However, when I submit my post quoting yours, Google will then add the
line breaks, so were you to quote it in turn, your first line would
have two chevrons, and the rest would have just one, thereby appearing
to be my words.

You are right that it is the older highly specialized software that
lacks the autowrap and would represent the biggest problem.

It is nothing that you misset - it is the default setting of your
software - as a said, an attempt by the original designers to replace
the existing global standard with a new Microsoft standard. You should
have something in the preferences that lets you change it, if you feel
so inclined. It is less likely that other software would have a
setting to convert it to Microsoft standard.

taf

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