[A83] Re: html mail


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[A83] Re: html mail



On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:32:53 -0400, Shenkuang Francis Huang 
<shenkuan@wam.umd.edu> wrote:

>> Someone people actually pay per byte for their internet connection.
>
> Really?  I have never met one.  I'd like to hear them complain.
>
>> What is not "nicely formatted" about lines wrapped at 76 characters?  It
> is
>> trivial to unwrap text lines if that is how you want to read it.
>
> It makes for less scrolling and for use of the nice high res monitor.  
> Over
> 50% of web browsers report their users as having 600x800 or higher

I guess that's with an lcd monitor in portrait mode? :-P

> (http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/07/30/daily12.html),
> and I'm assuming most people found the mailing list by surfing TI-Calc.
>
> I suppose it is trivial to install a proxy server on top of my mail 
> client
> that unwraps the text, why didn't I think of it before?  Maybe because 
> such
> a proxy server would unwrap some text that was actually meant to be a
> paragraph break.
>
>
>



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