[Arm-netbook] Tom Cubie's mails

[Derek LaHousse]

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 13:34 +0800, Tom Cubie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:54 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss at mtu.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone else have difficulty with Tom's replies? For me, his
> > >> response appears like part of the email to which he replies, colored
> > >> and
> > >> with ">" marks.
> > >>
> > >> Tom, I find your comments useful, but have trouble finding them.
> > >>
> > > What comments? on which thread? i usually reply by gmail from browser or
> > > phone
> > > or tablet. i think it's all plain text.
> >
> > no it's not: every message you send is converted to rich text. as a
> > result when it is converted back to plain text by most peoples' mail
> > editors (including gmail right here right now in which i have
> > explicitly set the default setting to be "plain text") you end up with
> > strange linebreak points inserted, just like has been done above where
> > the word "phone" was too long for the sentence (over 70 chars) and so
> > was wrapped to its own line... but whoops you were operating on an 80+
> > line length...
> >
> I have changed the gmail setting. How about this one? If this line is
> longer than 80 words, is it broken? Thanks Derek for pointing out
> this, if you don't tell me, i will never know how my mail looks like
> in others' mail editor. BTW, that mail editor do you guys use?
> > oopsie :)
> >
> > l.
> >
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Much better, Tom.  Thank you.

I'm using Evolution, in plain text mode.  Gmail seems to be a culprit
for lots of people's email problems.