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At 10:55 -0700 10/11/01, kowalskil wrote:
I'm getting them too, Ludwik, so it's not "your" fault. I suspect,
By the way, perhaps you want to know that my screen
shows equal signs at the end of many lines of your message.
I suppose I am not the only one to see them. Something to
do with automatic wrapping, I suppose. But why the equal
signs? Is it "my fault" or is it "your fault"?
Ludwik Kowalski
and I'm sure there will be others who will know what the cause is,
that the problem lies with the process by which certain e-mail
programs record line breaks. There are certain people on this list
and others, whose posting always have the "=" or some other figure at
the end of every line, and others whose posts never do.
I note also that when I send something out, I compose it on the
screen that is opened for me and the line length is always governed
by the width of the screen window. If I drag the window to a narrower
width, the lines obediently shorten, but when that same message
arrives back on my screen as a posting from the listserve, it seems
to be limited to about 60 characters width. If I close the screen
window to narrower than that each individual line wraps automatically
to the next line, but it doesn't wrap as a paragraph, indicating that
somewhere, a line break has been inserted into my text, which
originally had none. I don't know if it's done at the ListServe
server, or the mail server at my ISP.
I do wish that there could be some standardization on this, though,
because when every line of text is presented as two lines, whether
there is an "=" or some other symbol or not wherever the line break
has been inserted, it makes the posting difficult to read. If it is
one I will be referring to often (which happens frequently on this
list), I sometimes go back and fix the formatting so it wraps in the
normal manner.
I would appreciate it is there is anyone on the list who could shed
some light on this.
Hugh
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