Wow, this sounds like fun!  I received it as follows (starting in
     column 1:
 
You'll....note
tacked....line.
 Although....see,
the last word....AND THEN a
hard-coded....<CR>
characters....(with the
current windows....as follows:
 
     etc., etc.
 
     Leonard Berkowitz
     617-292-8349
 
 
 
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Subject: Re: Mail messages word wrap
Author:  Tom Emerson <[log in to unmask]> at internet
Date:    04/24/96 10:02 AM
 
 
Welcome to the internet!  Normally, I would "trim" the original message down
to the relavent part, but today I'm including it to show you what *I* see as
an "incoming" message:
 ----------
> From: Thomas Harmon
> To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L; TomE
> Subject: Mail messages word wrap
> Date: Wednesday, April 24, 1996 10:36AM
>
> Is it just me (and my Netscape 2.01) mail reader, or are others having
> trouble with
> incoming messages running of the right edge of the screen? It is annoying
to
> have to
> scroll right and left to read messages and if I print them the lines are
just
> truncated.
>
> Some messages are worse than others. Some just have a few letters past the
> right margin
> and some don't wrap at all, they keep on going until the sender pressed
the
> return key
> to end the paragraph. I'm sure it doesn't look like this on the sender's
> screen.
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Thomas A Harmon                  (715) 833-5513
> Systems Analyst                  mailto:[log in to unmask]
> Eau Claire Area School District
> 500 Main Street
> Eau Claire, WI  54701
>
 
You'll note that my mail reader (MS mail, using the windows client) has
tacked on a leading ">" character in front of each original "received" line.
 Although I've set my reader up to be nearly full-screen, as you can see,
the last word or two has been dropped down to the next line AND THEN a
hard-coded return appears.  As I'm responding to this, I only add hard <CR>
characters between paragraphs, so the first/last word of each line (with the
current window sizing) of this paragraph is as follows:
 
   You'll ... ">"
   character ... nearly
   full-screen ... AND
   THEN ... characters
   between ... this
   paragraph ... follows:
 
  Now, as each person responds to this, each mail/news reader will do
  re-formatting as *IT* thinks is appropriate, tack on a leading ">" (or
  other) character making each original line longer, and then dump it back
  into the internet mill for further recycling by the next person in the
  chain.