[MD] The longliners

[skutvik at online.no]

Craig, Krimel, Platt, All 

18 June Craig wrote:

> If there is a help function in your email system, search for
> "carriage return/line feed" or "CR/LF". For instance, if it is SHIFT
> + ENTER, then entering those keys will force a CR/LF.   

That may do the trick, but do you think those lazy fellows manage to 
operate two keys at a time?  ;-)    

Krimel wrote

> Yeah, I e-mailed Horse about that back in March. I take it you are
> referring to the way those posts look on the MoQ site. At least at
> my house those e-mails are badly formatted but no stretched across
> the page.

They are stretched after downloading as well There is the scroll bar of 
course but it's most cumbersome and if posts look interesting I open 
them in reply mode.    

> As people keep getting better and better hardware and widescreen
> displays the preferred width of webpage viewing has changed over the
> years. I think Horse intended to let the width of the browser float
> out to whatever width anyone chooses to view it in. Unfortunately,
> Dave and gav are using web based e-mail from Microsoft and Yahoo and
> those services don't seem to be inserting any line endings. As a
> result, the MoQ web page sees every paragraph as one big long line
> of text and formats itself to that widt

Yes, that's the problem, the cheap "Windows Mail" and/or "Outlook 
Express". Why not get a most advanced mail program like "Pegasus" 
or "Eudora"? They are free and comes in several sizes, but (at least 
Pegasus) has this  >  that indicates the text of your correspondent and 
double and triple such for previous layers of correspondence. Maybe 
THIS may look messy when answered by other systems, your 
[brackets] are exemplary and I would adopt that if agreed on.  

Platt wrote

> Good question, Bo. Some here seem to be infected with
> long-line-itus, making their posts an inordinate bother to read. DMB
> is the primary culprit. As for gav, well, I just give up. The length
> of line is easy to control in e-mail software and should be no more
> than 75 characters. Even I, a computer clod, know that.

Looks like you and I use the same settings - 110millimeter in my case 
- but there is a "rich text" key in addition (HTML I guess) and if this 
gets activated the long lines appear (in the final form)  I have 
developed some eyesight problem and bothering with all these strange 
formats and styles strains them unduly.  

Bo