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Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???
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Bob Carragher |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution??? |
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Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:57:37 -0800 |
[Just the "spacing" bit. B-]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:19:06 +0000 Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> sez:
> > Interesting observation. I've always found it to be the
> > opposite and you're actually the first to have mentioned it.
> > At least for me, I find that having the text wrapped at odd
> > places, or not wrapped at all depending on the
> > terminal/software displaying it, is much more difficult.
>
> I'm on the GNU groff mailing list, and there's the odd correspondent
> there that runs their emails through nroff. :-) It also fully
> justifies on a TTY, e.g.
>
> tr -dc 0-4a-c </dev/urandom | tr -s a-z \\n | sed 100q |
> nroff | grep .
>
> Thankfully, man(1) has --nj that can be put into $MANOPT. :-)
>
> A larger space indicates to me a significant break, e.g. end of
> sentence. Lack of hyphenation means many spaces are becoming two in
> your formatting, creating ugly rivers of whitespace. These are a
> problem in typesetting of proportional fonts fully justified;
> fixed-width doesn't have a chance. Subjective, I agree.
>
> It also breaks vim's formatting of the `> ' quotes lines above, i.e. it
> preserves the multiple spaces thinking they're significant.
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
As a vote in the other (or perhaps "meh") direction, I've been
reading man pages long enough that fully-justified spacing
doesn't jump out at me anymore, unless it's *really* bad.
Bob
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Ken Hornstein, 2015/03/03
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Bob Carragher, 2015/03/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Ken Hornstein, 2015/03/05
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Bob Carragher, 2015/03/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Ken Hornstein, 2015/03/05
Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???, Bob Carragher, 2015/03/01
Re: [Nmh-workers] Emails being tagged as spam -- NMH solution???,
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