[GNC] Reply convention

[Derek Atkins]

It's all about the sender. The list can't do anything about it.
-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On August 22, 2023 18:22:43 Brad Morrison <bradmorrison at sonic.net> wrote:

> I know that GnuCash (https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo) does
> not use the current version of the Mailman mailing list software (now 3,
> not 2 - https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/), but does anyone know if
> the various email formatting conventions
> (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette) can be adjusted
> by the mailing list user at the email client level?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 7/19/23 14:10, R Losey wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 5:05 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 03:28:34PM -0500, R Losey wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:37 AM Paul Feakins <paul at antropy.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 15/07/2023 01:56, R Losey wrote:
>>>>>> Is there really a convention for replies?
>>>>> Indeed there is:
>>>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Replies
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the link; it isn't specific to GnuCash, but that's okay.
>>>>
>>>> However, it does seem outdated - limiting a line to 72 characters when
>>> most
>>>> browsers and email clients are capable of doing line wrap?
>>>>
>>> Yes, but eyes aren't!  Something around 80 characters (i.e. 72 plus a
>>> bit) is the best line length for our eyes to read.
>>>
>>>
>>>> And plain text only?
>>>>
>>> What else are you going to do?  Anything more is likely to be
>>> differently interpreted by different users' software so the result you
>>> intend is likely to be lost on many users.  There are standard ways of
>>> indicating emphasis and such using just plain text.
>>>
>>>
>> This doesn't appear to be plain text... perhaps I'm associating plain text
>> with fixed-width fonts.
>> But if this works, that's fine.
>>
>> Regarding line length, I thought you could set your browser or email client
>> to wrap at whatever length one wishes.
>>
>>
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