Re:choppy mesages

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re:choppy mesages
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 01:26:39 -0500
Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net
Subject:  Re:choppy mesages
  Date:   Sun, 4 May 1997 20:46:16 -0500 (CDT)
  From:   Bert Pool <bertpool-at-flash-dot-net>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


Lately, the Tesla list serve has a lot of messages that wrap around and
one
word ends up on the next line by itself. Robert  Michaels wrote
something to
the effect to one of the posters "please limit your line length to 70
characters"" but also said "do not insert carriage returns in each
line".
Well, I for one, use Eudora Pro, and it does not allow me to set line
length, and it does not insert soft carriage returns, and the only way I
would have of limiting lines to 70 characters is to insert hard carriage
returns.

Why has this only recently become a problem?  I'm using the same mail
software as I have since I joined the list, over a year ago.  It is only
recently that I and several other posters have started having messages
get
this 70 column wrap-around problem.  And I agree it is irritating as all
heck!

Chip, anyone, do any of you  know what is causing this and what can I
(we)
do to fix it?  Just telling people to limit their line lengths to 70
characters isn't gonna do it.


Below is a test paragraph of the above message with lines limited to 70
characters via hard carriage returns.  I'm curious as to how it will
post.

                     1                     2                     3
4                     5                     6                     7
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

Lately, the Tesla list serve has a lot of messages that wrap around and
one
word ends up 
on the next line by itself. Robert  Michaels wrote something to the
effect
to one of the
posters "please limit your line length to 70 characters"" but also said
"do
not insert 
carriage returns in each line".  Well, I for one, use Eudora Pro, and it
does not allow me to
 set line length, and it does not insert soft carriage returns, and the
only
way I would have 
of limiting lines to 70 characters is to insert hard carriage returns.

Why has this only recently become a problem?  I'm using the same mail
software as I
have since I joined the list, over a year ago.  It is only recently that
I
and several other 
posters have started having messages get this 70 column wrap-around
problem.
And I 
agree it is irritating as all heck!

Chip, anyone, do any of you  know what is causing this and what can I
(we)
do to fix it? 
Just telling people to limit their line lengths to 70 characters isn't
gonna
do it.


Bert Pool
bertpool-at-flash-dot-net