[pct-l] Hard returns

[Eric Lee]

Eugene wrote:
>
Actually, it looks like the problem is because the archive encodes the text
with the <pre> tag.  The only good reason I can see for having this is so
you can make columns with text.  So this works in email readers where html
is not used, but causes problems in the archive where html explicitely tells
it to leave whitespace and to only break lines at line breaks.
>

Yes, the problem here is with the archives web site, not with the people
sending emails.

Ideally you shouldn't ever put hard returns into your text unless you
already know how your recipients are going to display the text and how wide
they want it.  Which, of course, you don't.  Emails can be displayed on
anything from a phone to a 30" wide-screen monitor.  It's the responsibility
of the receiving device to line-wrap the text appropriately.  Inserting hard
returns just messes that up.

Eric