* Stuart Cheshire wrote:
On my 30-inch displays your hard-wrapped text appears as a thin
narrow ribbon of text no matter how wide the window is, and on my
phone your hard-wrapped lines are too long to fit so they get re-
wrapped to that charming long/short/long/short pattern so
characteristic of hard-wrapped text displayed on any device other
than the one it was created on.
The developer of your mail client is welcome to develop an algorithm
that recognizes which wraps are intentional and which can safely be
removed, and which parts are quotations and which parts are not. With
that information mails can easily be reformatted as you'd like them
to be. To a point anyway, and developing the algorithm for it won't
be that easy, much as putting mails into the right context is not all
that simple when clients don't send References or In-Reply-To headers,
or, worse, people decide to reply to dozens of mails in one mail; but
something good enough, compared to weird zig zag, certainly seems
feasible.
The need for this exists no matter what other remedy one might have
in mind, short of having everyone upgrade all their software at once
and living with issues with older mails, if you don't want to see (or
in some cases generate yourself) poorly formatted mails, by someone's
standard. As you've noticed, simply sending out very very long lines
breaks deployed software that expects standards compliant e-mails, for
instance. Such is life when trying to use machines to understand some
format that wasn't exactly designed for machine readability.
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