Message body cleanup requested

Loren Chandler pluglist at plug.org
Wed Apr 30 14:07:17 MDT 2003


Good point, thanks.

-Loren


-----Original Message-----
From: pluglist-admin at plug.org [mailto:pluglist-admin at plug.org]On Behalf
Of Charles Curley
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:02 PM
To: pluglist at plug.org
Subject: Re: Message body cleanup requested


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:42:45AM -0600, Loren Chandler wrote:
> In Outlook 2000 I find this setting under the Tools pull-down ->
Options
> option -> Mail Format tab -> Message Format section ->  Settings
button ->
> "Automatically wrap at ___ characters when sending" setting. I have
mine set to
> wrap at 80 characters, hopefully that is a small enough number and
works for
> most people's terminal windows.

I suggest you set it to wrap at somewhat less than 80, to allow for
quoting. I use and recommend 72. I also use Emacs, which will re-fill
quoted paragraphs and leave the quoting intact.

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