Re: I'll bet you a ham sandwich

taf <farmerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1190417616.875853.61590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On Sep 21, 12:12 pm, WJhonson <wjhon...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
<<In a message dated 09/21/07 12:00:29 Pacific Standard Time,
gwyd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Anyone familiar with this: AOL
Openride 1.3.79.1 who can tell him how to not have his lines go on
beyond 70 characters? >> ---------------------------
Are other people having this issue with my postings?
I do not see any problems when I read my own postings nor those of
others sent to Gen-Med.


They do come through as uninterupted text, so when quoting, only the
first line of each paragraph has a chevron. I have to either add the
carriage returns and chevrons myself, or else leave it and hope it is
clear that the whole paragraph is what is being quoted. Fortunately,
my reader automatically wraps your text, but I have seen some readers
present paragraphs like yours as a single line running off the right
side of the screen and requiring several pages of scrolling to read.

It is really a conflict of two different conventions - traditionally,
email and USENET posts were not continuous text but had carriage
returns automatically inserted at a particular line length. This
allowed for different software at different technical levels all to be
able to process the information similarly, and the conventions for
quoting the post to which one is responding are tailored to this
convention. Then Microsoft came along and decided an email should be
continuous text so it could pop seamlessly in and out of a word
processor, which was probably correct in concept but in application
meant (perhaps not a coincidence) that only those using a Microsoft
reader could appropriately interpret and manipulate these messages (Of
course, Microsoft's solution was simply that everyone buy there
product, and then there are no compatibility problems.) For various
reasons, this is one that Microsoft didn't win, but won't admit defeat
either, and so traditional USENET standard used by most older
software, some competing software, and most web-based readers (such as
that at Google Groups) continues to be poorly compatible with
Microsoft standard (which is basically what you are using in modified
form).

taf



If it is as you say, why are his the only posts(currently) for which I
must toggle the auto-wrap function in my news client to get them to
display properly?

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