On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:11:55 +0000, Roger Long wrote:

"Matt O'Toole" wrote

Also, sorry to be a pain, but your last two wonderful messages were
almost unreadable with a text-only newsreader. There were no line
breaks, so I had to scroll horizontally. Outlook Express is famous for
such problems. I recommend turning HTML off and posting text-only, plus
maybe using an add-on like OE-Quotefix. Or changing newsreaders.

Sorry, I didn't realize, and wonder why, anyone would still be using a
plain text only reader. Seems like those who want to cling to the
Gutenburg age should perhaps make the adjustement instead of everyone
else posing to the lowest technology denominator.

Tell Microsoft! OE creates bad HTML that doesn't display properly in
other clients. It also doesn't handle newline characters (word wrap)
properly. This is bad enough with plain text messages, but it really
makes a mess with HTML.

I appreciate being able to click on links provided in these posts and
you can't do that in plain text.

Most "plain text" news and mail clients will display clickable links.

Isn't there
something you can click to force word wrap?

Not usually, and with good reason. It would screw up any pre-formatted
content.

I'm sure there are many opinions out there on this and I'd be interested
in hearing them.

I've created my own share of unreadable messages with OE. OE's text
editor bugs are well-known among programmers, webheads, and other
e-communications professionals. Since Microsoft doesn't seem interested,
people have tried to solve these problems with OE add-ons like
OE-Quotefix. I used these too for awhile.

Matt O.