Re: Hey All new subscriber to this group

On 18/06/2007 21:14, Joe wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
I though that was the intention with format=flowed it acts as a big paragraph while you're composing it, then it wraps it for sending (and the benefit of readers that don't use format=flowed) then if it is received by a reader that does support format=flowed, it can merge it back into a single paragraph again

Well, Thunderbird itself shows it spread right across the screen when
it displays the post

And dynamically re-wraps it to fit the available window width when you resize the TB window?

and hitting reply displays a beautifully-wrapped
version. I don't think that can be the intended behaviour.

I think that is exactly it's intended behaviour.

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