Kjetil Torgrim Homme | 19 Nov 2007 05:08
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Re: using mailing lists with Gmail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]:
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>   Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho <at> kaksi.ifi.uio.no> writes:
>   
>   > that sounds like a silly bug, that test should only apply when
>   > using e-mail or NNTP.  when you edit TEXTAREA in your browser,
>   > it does line wrapping for you, it's not reasonable or desireable
>   > to make the user add hard linebreaks.
>   
>   Perhaps.  I just have a knee-jerk reaction to the whole "let the
>   computer format your message" issue, which is, "No!".
>   
>   But I guess it really isn't that important in this case, especially
>   since it absolutely won't let you post with too long lines.

err, I mean that the browser will display the text you have entered
with linebreaks.  it won't actually add any hard linebreaks on your
behalf.  in other words, I think the web interface should do word wrap
on submitted articles.
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Kjetil T.

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