Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:51:31 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote:

> it really would help if people told me offlist if a particular poster 
is 
> unreadable due to formatting issues. my problem is i use Thunderbird 
and 
> it fixes the one-long-line thing 

  As you say, the problem is at the receiving end, OK in your 
Thunderbird, not OK in the Web archiver MHonArc which prepares the 
messages for the Web display at <http://www.marxmail.org/maillist.html> 
and encloses the message bodies with a "<pre>...</pre>" pair, which 
means it is preformatted. When the sending mail user agent relies on the 
receiving mail user agent to format the body lines according to the 
preferences of the receiver, i.e. sends a paragraph as one big line, 
those unreadable monster lines appear in the Web presentation. 

  Please make sure that the latest version of MHonArc of June 2006 is 
being used, and check the configuration possibilites at 
> <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html>
> and <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/mimefilters.html>

  You could e.g. include

<-- leave the formatting to the web browser -->
<MIMEArgs>
m2h_text_plain::filter; nonfixed
</MIMEArgs>

  or

<-- Make sure lines are no longer than 80 characters -->
<MIMEArgs>
m2h_text_plain::filter; maxwidth=80
</MIMEArgs>

  Also have a look at RFC 2646 "The Text/Plain Format Parameter" 
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt>

  What the receiving user agent cannot solve, is when a sender includes 
a text from another source by copy and paste into her or his outgoing 
message, and that mail program then "fixes" lines being too long before 
they go out, thus creating a zig-zag formatting. My recommendation to 
all contributors: check your message before sending it, best put it in 
the outbasket first, instead of sending it right away, and re-open the 
message to check the formatting. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
--------------------------------
visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in 
German



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