Re: the usual mail stuff, was IETF...the unconference of SDOs

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I have to say that I'm baffled at the perverse pride that people seem
to take in being so technically backward that they're unable to handle
the mail that 99% of the world uses today.  While not being a fan of
overdecorated HTML and endless font changes, and strongly preferring a
mail program that lets me keep my fingers on the keyboard, I can deal
with it.  (I use Alpine, keep meaning to take another look at mutt.)
I remember how to punch drum cards, but I have no interest in using
one to send mail in 2012.

For the large majority of mail that is written in paragraphs rather
than tables, line wrapping is a useful feature, regardless of the
character set, particularly for those of us who sometimes read our
mail on a tablet or phone while changing planes.  For mail that is a
table and stuff has to line up in columns, use HTML tables. That's
what they're for.

R's,
John

PS: Yes, this is top posted.  You can deal with that, too.

>Unfortunately there's some stuff going around that line
>wrapping with hard line terminations is retrograde and goes
>back to punch cards.  I guess that's probably true but
>aside from the fact that I'm retrograde and go back to
>punch cards, myself, application line wrapping and flowed
>text don't deal well (yet) with multiple character sets,
>fonts, etc. and I'll take readability over application
>purity every single time.



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