On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:43:57 +0530 q u a s i wrote:
left of the screen which is a pain to read. BTW how can a reply to
an unwraped line get messed up. Your mail client should be smart 'nuff to handle that - even Eudora (a pathetic windows app) can do it and Emacs does it too.
Like this. Notice just one '>' above? Several clients and web interfaces do this when they auto-wrap a long line. And before you remind me to use a "smarter" mail-client, my mailer (Sylpheed) is smart enough in whatever contexts this adjective was invoked.
You are making assumptions about the behavior of a user's mail client. Some mail clients wrap long lines, others display a horizontal scroll-bar and some simply truncate what exceeds the screen width. It would not be the"Right Thing" to tell a subscriber to use a "smart" mail client. Someone may even cat his mailbox and directly telnet to port 25 for sending mails!