Info on prob I have caused

[James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: infraed@xxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: Admin stuff (was: Re: Kodak & line breaks
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:03:41 -0500

I received this from iopener today
 James Romeo
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From: rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: Admin stuff (was: Re: Kodak & line breaks
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:59:33 -0600

James Romeo wrote: 
 
> High Rob. This is a problem I have with one group . Why should there be a problem with email with this group ?                                                                                                                     I must say Iopener is getting better all the time. I have been talking to a lot of people I know about it. It is great for a lot of us who want email and web and do no want or need a computer. Thank you for eny info you could givr me on this  James Romeo 
 
OK, James, here's the scoop, as I understand it:  When you type in mail, the i-opener software doesn't put "hard" carriage returns in the message unless you press the enter key and make one yourself.  MOST mail readers notice that the lines are long and "wrap" them to fit the size of the window that the person is reading their mail in.  This makes the email messages format to whatever size environment the recipient has.  This is the best strategy, we think, because it accomodates the difference between, say, a recipient reading mail you've sent them on their giant-screen desktop computer and a recipient reading mail you've sent them on the narrow screen of their WebTV device.  The sender can never know what the recipient's environment is like, so this makes sense to us. 
 
SOME email readers, however, don't do this, they just continue the line out for as long as it goes without a carriage return, causing the reader to have to scroll and scroll to read the message. 
 
SOME mail *sending* programs also insert carriage returns into messages, but many don't (and the i-opener doesn't). 
 
The fix, for you, will be to put your own carriage returns at the end of your lines.  When posting to the group with that grouchy person in it, just press the Enter key and manually start a new line whenever you reach the end of a line you're typing.  This will make your message curiously narrow to persons reading it on most mail readers, but should satisfy your critic. 
 
Later, 
 
~rob 
 



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