Re: [Ltru] Mailinglist issue

["Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>]

My last public comment on this, and then I am done with this manual
line-breaking garbage.

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:

>> Outlook Express sends my mails as:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";
>> reply-type=original
>
> This is perfectly sensible but, when your message arrives, there is
> only the 'text/plain; charset' part, the fact that the message is
> flowed (RFC 3676) is lost (may be a broken gateway somewhere).
>
> So, it is not a surprise if I have the same problem than Martin with
> your messages.

Since they're getting through to some people, and I haven't changed
anything about my mail configuration lately, there doesn't seem to be
much I can do about this.

Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote:

> My recommendations to all list subscribers:
> ...
>   (2) DO NOT use format=flowed.  In my experience, it doesn't work
>         well anyway.

Since I've been called out on this, my setting in Outlook Express is:

Tools | Options | Send | Plain Text Settings |
Automatically wrap text at 72 characters, when sending.

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