From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86676 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: text/plain with 80 char wrap vs the flowed mime-type (whatever it is) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:59:54 -0800 Message-ID: <0legd2r8dh.fsf@wjh.hardakers.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453942974 19178 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2016 01:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 01:02:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34902@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 27 23:02:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aOYA4-0000KX-4M for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:02:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aOY8E-0001Xb-Ad; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:00:06 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aOY89-0001X0-Ps for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:00:01 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aOY88-000369-Lp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:00:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.hardakers.net ([168.150.236.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aOY86-0005Rv-JQ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:59:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (50-1-19-26.dsl.dynamic.fusionbroadband.com [50.1.19.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.hardakers.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6162E20EDF for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:59:54 -0800 (PST) Face: 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 i3bRphBM04dZ2dI6yMLjmGFqnIok/cB1YU8sJAACTeuHOd5+lumQHfDM6KyLqEm4aWkkcc1m4PqBewZxBZOg44lT+aJiexDteewboiVhxAjSHxQwhiYJEdCR6tMN1/uckirDRNbsgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86676 So, I was co-writing a mail message with my wife yesterday and I noticed, after sending her my copy of the proposed text, using the standard wrap length (76 or whatever it is), that it looked fairly messed up on her small phone screen. What are people using for wrapping text these days? Sticking with an assumed 80 char screen? Always using non-wrapped text? Sadly, what I suspect I need to is set up different parameters in different topics depending on who I'm writing to. I suspect that the 80-char battle finally sunk with the massive change in form factors that people read mail on now. Should I bother to continue assuming I know how I want to lay out my message, when the reader really should have their preference for generic paragraphs (as opposed to structured things like code or ascii diagrams). Thoughts? -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://blog.capturedonearth.com/