Off-topic - FW: A helpful hint for Netscape mail users. (fwd)

[Samuel Held <Held@RHIP.PHYS.UTK.EDU>]

Hi all,
        Here is an e-mail I received earlier today and thought many of
you might want to utilize since I get the impression that many people
are using Netscpae Mail.  Also, if anyone wants it I received an alert
on the rise of Trojan Horses from CERT (Computer Emergency Response
Team).  If there is enough interest I will post the URL for the alert to
these listserves.  Sorry for those subscribed to both lists.


Sam Held
held@rhip.phys.utk.edu

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> Dear All,
>
>         Netscape has become a popular mail utility.  However, those of
us
> who don't use it sometimes receive garbled messages that have spurious
> carriage returns or very long lines.  This often results in unreadable
> mail (unless we re-format it in our non-Netscape mailers).
>
>         For example, we might get a line like this from a friendly
Netscape user:  Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
their country, because four score and seven years ago, our forefathers
set forth on this continent a new country.
>         Tom Shea just called me with an explanation of this
> problem and a fix.  The problem is caused when a Netscape mail
> user has expanded the width of their Netscape window beyond
> 80 characters.  So, if you Netscape mail folks will be kind enough
> to shrink the width of your window so that less than 80 character
> lines are sent in your mail message, then the rest of us who
> use "less modern" mailers will be very happy.
>
>         Thanks and happy e-mailing!

it's sometimes hard to see if you have a window which is actually 80
chars wide. Instead, I set the width in the preferences.

Go to preferences, then to "Mail & Groups", then to "Messages", then
check "wrap long lines at" and set 80 chars (I actually set 72 chars).

Then you don't depend on the actual window size.