Re: "Virtual" Interrupts -- Need help please

[Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>]

Am 09.09.2013 13:45, schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> On 09/09/2013 04:18 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> Am 09.09.2013 13:02, schrieb Mark Brown:
>>> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 05:35:56PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>
>>> Please fix your mailer to word wrap within paragraphs, not doing this
>>> makes your mail very hard to read.  It looks like your mailer has also
>>> reflowed Daniel's mail.
>>
>> That's just wrong. Mail readers should wrap lines, not senders. And
>> readers can do this since some decades.
>>
>> The reason is obvious: No sender knows the line width the receiver can
>> display. So, for example, if the sender hard breaks lines every 80
>> chars, a reader with a device which just displays 60 characters at
>> max. will see every second line with at most 20 characters. I assume
>> you can guess how such does look like. Furthermore there are still a
>> lot of people which do like to read mails with line length as long
>> their display is possible to show, and hard breaking lines on the
>> receiver side does make such impossible.

Uups, sorry, I meant on the sender side here. ;)

>>
>> So the correct behaviour is to not hard break lines on the sender side
>> and leave that to the reader on the receiving side, as only the
>> receiving side knows the line width.
>>
>
> I am using thunderbird and/or mutt. I don't think they reflow anything,
> or at least the logged mail doesn't seem to have been reflowed (nor
> does the text above).
>
> As for what I write myself, I prefer to wrap manually, meaning automatic
> insertion of newlines is turned off. Guess I can not do it right for

That just the right thing to do.

> everyone.


Regards,

Alexander Holler