Reading html mail (was: MOUSE AND TOUCHPAD)

["Francisco S. Wechsler" <wechsler fca unesp br>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:

> >  Keith:
> >  I use Pine 4.44 just as you do, but I have no problem reading those 
> >"unwrapped" lines several of you people complain about. Now why would that 
> >happen? (Just curious.)
> 
> Go to a console.
> Start pine.
> use h to find an html message.
> Reply to it.
> Most of the message is way off the console screen.
> Either follow the cursor over to try to read what was written, delete the 
> message or ask the OP to post with wrapped lines.

  Now I see what you are getting at. I face the same problem myself, when
replying to some messages. But I use a fourth option: hitting Ctrl-J a
couple of times. This is obviously a pain in the neck.

> or I could inform them that there are protocols and if we work within
> those parameters then we are better prepared to run a real OS and handle
> events and incidents when they arise.

  That's fine by me. HTML is not a good e-mail format for other reasons as
well.

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