On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:35:19PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2005-10-12 13:21:36 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > >> Reflowing to the width of the terminal or GUI windows is, what > >> format=flowed is all about. Not doing it is certainly a bug. > > I'm sorry, but that argument goes too short. format=flowed tells us > that the author is happy about having their text re-flowed. It also > makes it easier to re-flow text. But why does that mean that we > *have* to reflow it, instead of making the best use of that > information to make messages as readable as possible? The problem, Thomas, is that you are making a completely arbitrary decision as to what is the most readable, and forcing it on the users. If a user WANTS to read 132-column e-mail, you have taken away their ability to do so, arbitrarily, for no good reason. If your terminal is less than 77 characters, format=flowed is a win for you. And if it isn't, you get whatever Thomas likes. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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