[WikiEN-l] Message formatting

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/14/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> Lately, a lot of people have been posting messages here that are
> malformatted, with long lines stretching out indefinitely.  You can
> see this when you look at the web archive, where you sometimes have
> to scroll a mile to the right to see all of the message.  This is
> contrary to the standards of RFC 2822, which recommend that there be
> a hard break after lines of no more than 79 characters.

This is probably something in their mail client that they have no idea
how to control. I know I don't. Maybe you count letters and add
linebreaks but I think most of us just type a bunch of run-on
sentences which wrap themselves without any difficulty.

So rather than indirectly hounding people who might not know who or
what the hell you're talking about, would it be possible to tell the
Pipermail or whatever to appropriately wrap messages when viewed in
the archive directory?

—C.W.