RE: Line Breaks and Not

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

My usual e-mail plaintext format does not have fixed line breaks inside 
paragraphs.  That allows reflow in accordance with the recipients e-mail 
browser window parameters (just like with web pages).

Because there are still many clients that won't reflow, and many users here 
expect hard line breaks in paragraphs, my approach is to sign those e-mails. 
The digital signature technique adds line breaks and other normalizations to 
ensure that no intermediary or recipient breaks the signature.

I did not make any line breaks in the two preceding paragraphs.

I am signing this e-mail so that you will receive it broken up the way that it 
is readable for you but I don't have to make the change for everyone I send 
mail to.

I still forget to do this from time to time.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.mail@wtnet.de]
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 15:42
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites

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PS:
How comes that the text is sometimes well formatting and like in this
mail it's only one long unwrapped line.

So, sorry if my hand-quoted text is worse.

Marcus

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Re: Line Breaks and Not

["Marcus (OOo)" <ma...@wtnet.de>]

Am 11/25/2011 07:42 AM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton:
> My usual e-mail plaintext format does not have fixed line breaks inside
> paragraphs.  That allows reflow in accordance with the recipients e-mail
> browser window parameters (just like with web pages).

yes, pretty normal as I don't know nobody who makes a line wrap after 72 
characters. ;-)

> Because there are still many clients that won't reflow, and many users here
> expect hard line breaks in paragraphs, my approach is to sign those e-mails.
> The digital signature technique adds line breaks and other normalizations to
> ensure that no intermediary or recipient breaks the signature.
>
> I did not make any line breaks in the two preceding paragraphs.

Wow, interesting effect as signing text shouldn't be the difference in 
this case.

> I am signing this e-mail so that you will receive it broken up the way that it
> is readable for you but I don't have to make the change for everyone I send
> mail to.
>
> I still forget to do this from time to time.

It's OK, it was no personal criticism to you. I just was bothered of the 
situation itself.

Marcus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.mail@wtnet.de]
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 15:42
> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites
>
> [ ... ]
>
> PS:
> How comes that the text is sometimes well formatting and like in this
> mail it's only one long unwrapped line.
>
> So, sorry if my hand-quoted text is worse.
>
> Marcus
>
> [ ... ]