[Mailman-Users] Carriage Return in Archives

[J C Lawrence]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 23:30:07 EST 
Topaz877  <Topaz877 at aol.com> wrote:

> Regarding the principle of least surprise, the messages that have long
> lines in the archives arrive in my inbox perfectly formatted. So, it
> was a surprise to me that they did not line wrap in the archives. I
> suspect that AOL did this for me though I haven't researched it.

Aye, its likely, and regrettable, that AOL does this.

> To me, content is the most important thing. What did the person say in
> their message? As such, ease of reading in the archives is important
> to me. This is partly why I use the stripmime script.

For me formatting is often significant, and almost as often a critical
part of content.  Sometimes in now just what was said, but how it was
said.

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J C Lawrence                
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