[Marxism] Moderator's note

[Aaron]

>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:18:29 -0400
>From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com>
>
>Aaron wrote:
>>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.
>
>It is not an issue of *reading*. It is an issue of *replying*. When I
>tried to reply, the long line kicked in. This is generally the
>problem with all these misbehaving email clients like yahoo, etc.

My email client is Eudora 6.2.3 for Mac. It has the option of automatically hard-wrapping one's text, but I wouldn't think of using it as my default, since this list is the only place I have any complaints about text that doesn't have ugly, semantically meaningless line breaks. About 5 years ago, a comrade complained to me about the problem, but I told him how to set his email program to soft-wrap text in messages he was viewing, and I haven't had a complaint from him or anybody else since!

I'm curious, btw, what email client you're using, Louis, since it seems to misbehave when encountering perfectly-correctly-formatted text .

But I'll really try to remember to hard-wrap messages I send to this list. Actually doing it isn't hard, since all I have to do is (1) "Select All" and then (2) choose "Wrap Selection" from the Edit menu.

 - Aaron