[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/11/2010 12:27 PM, Doug Phillips wrote:
> On Nov 10, 3:26 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> On 11/10/2010 2:56 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> In article<iben6n$qr... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>    writes:
>>>> On 2010-11-10 18:25, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>> In article<910f992e-ed5a-4e27-9491-882c5b085... at v20g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd<met... at gmail.com>     writes:
>>>>>> On Nov 10, 9:45 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>>> Can you make vim wrap at the indented column? =A0I hate trying to
>>>>>>> follow code that is indented but then the long lines wrap at the
>>>>>>> left margin.
>>
>>>>>> Vim normally wraps to the indented column.
>>
>>>>> Hmm.  I have PHP code that is a bitch to read because it's like
>>>>> emails typed on WEENDOZE...
>>
>>>> OK, you have absolutely no idea what you are
>>>> talking about, right ? What exactly characterize
>>>> "emails typed on WEENDOZE" that makes them stand out ?
>>
>>> The lack of carriage returns because they type and hope that their email
>>> program will automagically wrap their text.  Try reading WEEDOZE email in
>>> a text email agent and you'll see.  You're here on comp.os.vms, so it's
>>> probably you have access to VMS mail.  Have a look-see.  And, it's not a
>>> WEENDOZE only phenom but that's the crux of most of the emails that I have
>>> to suffer.
>>
>> Are my messages unreadable?  I have a return key and I use it.
>>
>> I have seen ONE message that came through as a single line about 700
>> characters long.  I have been reading and posting news for more than
>> twenty years.
>
> I remember this guy way-back in the Compuserve VAX Forum
> who would
> respond "your post looks funny" to a person who used the Return
>   key, which
>   made their posts look like this because the forum software would
> wrap lines
> automatically at someplace other where the poster wanted it
> to wrap.
>
> Can't remember his name, though ;-)

I can't recall the incident.  Perhaps it was before my time.  Stuart 
Fuller might recall it.