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RE: Weird Lines <not Dinosaur related>
It's not one
particular email system or another - they all interact in slightly different
ways, some storing rich text or html format, others using plain ASCII
text.
Then again some
system administrators instruct their systems to strip the html/rich text headers
away as they can cause system clutter.
Many university
sites (which a large number of list members will use) have UNIX based mail
systems - which typically prefer plain text. Mac and Windows based systems tend
to prefer rich text / HTML formats.
After a mail has
been back and forth a couple of times through different text format, different
screen widths etc. etc..
Nothing that we can
do about it until the powers that be agree on a unified format protocol for
e-mail.
(And Hell will
freeze over a couple of days before that happens!)
regards,
John
PS - as this is not
really related to the idea of the list - this should be the last post on this
topic.
Guys,
Sorry for bringing this up, but when I
get e-mail from this list, lots of your lines seem to have carriage returns in
the wrong places. I understand it's common with forwarded mail, but these ones
seem to be part of replies. For example:
It has been
assumed that,
especially in the Cretaceous when the first higher
flowering plants
appeared,
it was pterosaurs in particular who
distributed the seeds, as bird
fauna
were
still relatively
sparse at the time.
Am I the only one or are you all getting the
same thing? Why does this happen, out of curiosity, because I've been
wondering about this a long while. Another list I am on doesn't seem to have
the same effects, or maybe it's just my e-mail viewer.
Greg