[Gllug] [OT] What's with all the messy posts.

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 05 Oct, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > You can use emacs M-q to fold long lines to the right length.
> > 
> > Or for those of us using a sane editor, you can use fmt(1), par(1) or
> > there are various vim plugins to do it for you.
> 
> Just the built-in formatting works with the following options:
> 
>  formatoptions=tcqr
> 
> Incidently, David's email did contain a text/plain version which my
> alpine preferred (you can toggle built-in text rendered html or the
> plain text version with "a"), I was a bit confused by why Chris Bell
> started this thread in the first place.
> 
> Damion

   Yes there was a plain text section, but it only contained the signature,
not the main body. I have just scrolled through to the original to check.
   Incidentally I am able to read HTML formatted text, but have disabled
that function to prevent any junk mail from redirecting my system to a
logging site or forcing it to download random additional rubbish.

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