[OSM-newbies] plaintext in mailinglists

[John F. Eldredge]

Did my original message appear like that, or was that from a reply to my message?  At any rate, it looks like someone's email client is ignoring hard carriage returns when it line-wraps.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:49:39 
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] plaintext in mailinglists

At 2010-03-02 06:32, Jonas Stein wrote:
>i would suggest to setup all mailinglists to convert non-plaintext
>(HTML...) messages to plaintext.
>
>Many subscribers have bad configured mailclients.
>That causes most messages are destructed after a few replies.


On a possibly related note, can someone tell me why a few messages end up 
with all the newlines stripped, appearing like this:

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> 
wrote: > When editing in Potlatch, how do you go about adding a POI that is 
not > in the list of default POI types? Â The building in which I work used 
to > be a hospital. Â Several years ago, it ceased to be a hospital, and 
was > converted into commercial office space...

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>


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