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RE: choppy mesages (Results with MS Inbox) (read with inbox)

Subject:  RE: choppy mesages (Results with MS Inbox) (read with inbox)
  Date:   Sat, 10 May 97 06:32:59 UT
  From:   "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
    To:   "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
    CC:    hwahl-at-jtc-campus.moric-dot-org


we are off the tesla thread, but this is really interesting - the
message 
shows up perfectly on my machine using MS inbox (exchange 4.0) as the
reader 
yet there appear to be hard carriage returns in it because when I widen
the 
window the lines don't get any wider.  Now heinz wrote his message using
the 
same tool as I use, yet I see my postings comming back with the lines 
fragmented in cruel and unusual places.  My conclusion - this isn't a
mail 
reader problem, but something in the ISP's gateway to the internet/SMTP
mail 
system.  In my case, my ISP is the evil Microsoft itself (e.g. msn), but
heinz 
is using (from the return address) some university system.  Now I am
pretty 
sure that the university will be using a unix based internet gateway
running a 
native SMTP server process, while I also believe I remember reading that 
microsoft uses some variant of MS Exchange server running on a plethora
of NT 
4.0 platforms.  Anyway, the cosmic meaning behind all of this is that
there 
may not be too much point in sweating the columns wars, perhaps just
ignoring 
the bizarre formatting will be the most painless.  e.g. Zen and the art
of 
reading the tesla list without getting your eyes crossed.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Tesla List 
Sent:   Friday, May 09, 1997 9:57 PM
To:     tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject:        RE: choppy mesages (Results with MS Inbox)

Subject:  RE: choppy mesages (Results with MS Inbox)
  Date:   Fri, 9 May 1997 15:35:16 -0400
  From:   Heinz Wahl <hwahl-at-jtc-campus.moric-dot-org>
    To:   "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


Well, for what it's worth I figured that I'd see if this message got
chopped 'cause I don't want anybody flamin' mad at little ole me. I use
MS Inbox. Does this have the same result? I'm typing 170 characters per
line, soft returns. Anybody have a problem with it?

Heinz

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From:  Tesla List [SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
Sent:  Wednesday, May 07, 1997 12:57 AM
To:  tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject:  Re:choppy mesages

Subject:   Re:choppy mesages
  Date:    Tue, 6 May 1997 05:16:23 -0500 (CDT)
  From:    Bert Pool <bertpool-at-flash-dot-net>
    To:    Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


At 11:47 PM 5/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject:  Re:choppy mesages
>  Date:   Mon, 5 May 1997 12:48:59 +0500
>  From:   "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
>    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>
>On Sun, 4 May 1997 20:46:16 -0500 (CDT) Bert Pool
><bertpool-at-flash-dot-net> wrote;
>
>> Well, I for one, use Eudora Pro, and it does not allow me to set line
>> length, and it does not insert soft carriage returns, and the only way I
>> would have of limiting lines to 70 characters is to insert hard carriage
>> returns.
>
>Bert, not to start e-mail reader wars but that is one of many reasons 
>why I dropped Eudora! I now use Pegasus Mail which allows me to set 
>the line width and I can select hard carrage returns or soft, it is 
>totaly programable so I can literal use it as a unattended list serve 
>if so desired and best of all it's FREE.

Heck, I'm not at all interested in fighting, I just want to do my part
on
getting rid of the line crap.  I'll see if I can't download Pegasus in
the
next day or two.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I like E.P., but I can
give it up.


Bert Pool
bertpool-at-flash-dot-net