On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:29:38 +0000, Roger Long wrote:

That's very interesting and it certainly does seem inelegant and wasteful
although I can't imagine bandwith is really a problem with all the video's
being sent around.

I agree that attachements, embedded pictures, animated signatures, etc. have
no place here. It's odd though that the only complaint I've gotten about
posting since signing up as the twelth internet user in Maine (outside of
educational institutions, anyway) was for my line feeds producing broken up
text. The concensus then was, "leave the line wraps to the reader".

Actually that's not the way it works. The writer should produce the line
breaks. The problem with OE is that it doesn't do this properly, and
with HTML it's worse. Turn off HTML posting and you solve half the
problem.

The reason OE screws up quoted text is that while re-wrapping it doesn't
remove old line breaks before inserting new ones. It also doesn't
recognize its own quote marks, so you wind up with in the middle of
lines. Put an HTML page through this and it ruins the HTML, making it
unreadable by machine or human.

I recently had to reinstall Windows and OE. I don't know at this point
what format I was posting in previously. I've set it back to plain text
to see how it works.

The default for OE is HTML posting. You have to change it back to plain
text.

Matt O.