[colug-432] 80-cols email?

[Angelo McComis]

Good to know...

I forgot that browsers will take a <pre> tag and not wrap it.

Angelo

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From: colug-432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug-432-bounces at colug.net] On
Behalf Of Michael Yanovich
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 4:15 PM
To: colug-432 at colug.net
Subject: Re: [colug-432] 80-cols email?

The Enigmail extension for Thunderbird can force e-mail composition to
80 lines and plain-text only (for viewing and sending). The complete list
that can be customized is:

* Disable loading IMAP parts on demand
* Disable flowed text (RFC 2646)
* View message body as plain text
* Use 8-bit encoding for message sending
* Do not compose HTML messages

You can install the extension and have it apply these settings and not use
PGP if you wish. (I have this setup on a couple of e-mail addresses in my
configuration). I've grown accustomed to viewing e-mail in plain text and
the line breaking at 80 characters.

On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Angelo McComis wrote:
> I've seen this reference more than once, and pardon the lack of 
> context in this area as to who this serves, but who still, in 2012, is 
> using a modern communications protocol like e-mail, yet using a 
> program for it that is incapable of something as simple as 
> line-breaking and paragraph formatting, so as to not overrun the screen on
an 80-column reader?
> 
> And what program is this that has such a problem? 
> 
> Perhaps Stallman is on our list? :)
> 
> Sorry if I'm swinging a stick at a hornets nest here, but the topics 
> on this list are usually of the "how can I use this newer technology" 
> and hardware enablement on Linux...  rather than the "how do I keep 
> this dinosaur 386 hardware running" variety, so this ever-so-simple 
> email issue seems a bit odd.
> 
> --
> Angelo
> 
> /written via an app that will auto wrap long lines for me for plain 
> text readers.
> 
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Michael Yanovich