At 14.37 +0000 98-02-18, Ian Bell wrote:
The more I think about this, the more I worry about the interaction
between text/paragraph and message-quoting. I fear we may be moving from a
standard (text/plain) that's being broken to a standard (text/paragraph)
that _is_ broken.
The best mailer I have seen for handling this specific problem is Pine.
If Pine gets as input a message with
A very long line one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven
twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen, etc.
this line will automatically get displayed to its reader as
A very long line one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen, etc.
If the writer of a reply containing the above text edits the text,
and changes it to, for example:
five six seven eight nine ten
eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen, etc.
and if the writer of the reply applies the justify command in Pine,
the result will be
five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen
fifteen sixteen seventeen, etc.
and not, for example,
five six seven eight nine ten >eleven twelve thirteen fourteen
fifteen sixteen seventeen, etc.
as one could expect of more simpleminded editors.
All my praise and admiration to the developers of Pine!
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme