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    SubjectRe: "Virtual" Interrupts -- Need help please
    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



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