Line wrapping for smart phones - Was: 18.04 LTS installation failure

[Bret Busby]

On 10/06/2019, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 14:10, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> If somebody should be interested, there's a thread at
>> https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2019-June/024247.html.
>
> This debate came up on the ClassicCmp mailing lists a couple of years
> ago. I was very surprised that people _wanted_ hard line wrapping. I
> do not want it myself and I regard myself as a strong "email
> traditionalist".
>
>> Somebody already posted a screenshot of a smart phone text, that is
>> broken due to line wrapping at 72 chars. Smart phone users expect all
>> other computer users to resize windows to wrap lines, which not
>> necessarily does the job, usually it's required to side scroll, while
>> they simply could rotate the text or don't use a smart phone at all.
>
> Yes, I thought unwrapped would be more useful and flexible. But
> apparently many old mail clients can't wrap text on their own. I did
> not know this. The ones I used in the 1980s and early 1990s could.

Interesting, because "the 1980s and early 1990s" is before "The
Internet" - at that time, internets operated generally through
ARPAnet, from memory, unless they were standalone internets.

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Bret Busby
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