[mdlug] List archive and long lines

[Ken Siersma]

On 1/11/07, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the interesting thing I just learned (through the archive) is
> that my messages are some of the "offending" ones, that scroll off the
> screen. When I think about it, that's not really surprising, as
> webmail developers have no idea whether the user will be on a 20 inch
> wide-screen LCD at some ridiculously high dpi, or on a cell phone.
> They don't want to adopt an arbitrary standard for line length. It
> really makes sense. Proponents of a standardized line length are
> simply not keeping up with the times.
>

I found today that on gmail turning off rich formatting (by clicking
the 'Plain Text' link above the compose mail area) will send your
messages at a max width of 72 chars.  It also appears that that
preference is retained the next time you compose a message.

-Ken