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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2017-04-17 9:54 AM, wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>
>>>> Thunderbird and other readers expects to see formatted lines in quotes. Google Groups does not do this in quoted text. I don't mind if GG does not casually add forced formatting where there is none. Some folks see it as an insurmountable problem. Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not one of those guys.
>>>
>>> The other issue is, it is much more difficult to read a very long line
>>> of text. The eye gets lost on the long journey to the right. Page
>>> layout is something that publishers have done a lot of work on.
>>>
>>> I have my Firefox window maximized and your single line wandered and
>>> wandered until I got bored looking for the end.
>>
>> I've tried numerous times. He just doesn't get it. He thinks it's the
>> fault of our news readers.
>
> Sloppy formats are the result of pure laziness. I don't read any of
> dsi1's posts that roll off the page, he can easily correct that but
> he's either too lazy, too ignorant, or both. I also don't care to
> read untrimmed posts, especially with all the messy attributions.

That could be your own laziness, because you should be able to configure
your reader to limit line length. I don't have a problem with line wrap
when I read his posts, but when I reply to them I have to go to Edit and
select Rewrap.

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