[Marxism] Moderator's note

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:47 -0400
>From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note
>Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
>	<marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
>
> > I've only had time to skim the article Fred Bergen posted, but it 
>seems like a serious analysis from one Marxist perspective of a 
>major working-class struggle. I'm not clear why it is less 
>appropriate for a Marxism list than, say, "'Tenured radical' tries 
>to revive professors group" by Justin Pope, Associated Press!
> >
> > Is the problem (from Louis' viewpoint) that it's too long? That 
>it contains a slogan? I'd like to know, bdfore I make the mistake of 
>posting something unacceptable to this list.
> >
> >  - Aaron
>
>Aaron, I have given up on responding to comrades who have the "long
>line" problem. Look at http://www.marxmail.org/msg45055.html and you
>will see that your message can only be read if it scrolled back and
>forth as if you were watching a tennis match.

The problem seems to be that the program that generates the archive's 
web pages containing the posts puts the actual posts between <pre> 
and </pre> tags, thus keeping most browsers from wrapping long lines, 
as most browsers, word processors, etc., have been doing for ages. I 
doubt if anybody reading my posts with a GUI email program have a 
problem with the long lines, and I've had no complaints about any of 
my posts to other lists.

Hard carriage returns in the middle of paragraphs are an annoying 
anachronism, and they become especially annoying when lines get 
wrapped again when being quoted, but I'll try to remember to 
hard-wrap my posts to this list until the archive software is brought 
into the 21st century, or at least up to 1995 standards.

  - Aaron

>Once again, I strongly urge comrades to look at
>http://www.marxmail.org/maillist.html after you have written a message
>to the list at least once to see if you have this formatting problem.
>
>The solution is to use google mail or thunderbird.