[CS-FSLUG] A Favor to Ask

[Stephen J. McCracken]

Warren Sanders wrote:
> One thing I struggle with is characters per line.  I often find it 
> annoying that when I forward a good message, the lines get truncated;
> I think I just realized that it must be due to the ">" it adds to the
>  line.  So I then bump out past suggested 65-70 norm to 75 to capture
>  without new word wraps in the composition.  I never have problems 

That's one thing I found nice about Thunderbird.  It has a "rewrap" 
feature that wraps qouted lines (even with the ">") to the standard 
width without overrunning the lines and having a word or two below  so 
you don't end up with something like this (from another list):

 >Sorry, but this was the very first post I saw after I joined this list a

little

 >> bit ago, and I couldn't resist a few comments.  Is this guy for real, or

is this a

 >> joke?