| Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list [message #26644 is a reply to message #26641] |
Fri, 29 July 2005 18:18   |
ligesh
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Well, in this case, this is pipermail (mailman archiver) problem.. The mail looks fine, but in the archive, it scrolls all the way out. ..I thought it might be worth noting since mailman is so common..
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Wrapping a paragraph at some arbitrary length (80 is a actually arbitrary in these days when terminals range from pda's to very large screen terminals) is wrong, and a fucking bad programming. Why not follow the standards of the punch card days then? It is the job of the final display software to wrap the sentence as it sees fit. A paragraph is always a single line, and this is the easiest way to manage it at the sending end.
You can in fact, fix the piper mail code to simply add a 'wrap' inside the td when u are printing it. i am actually confused here, since 'wrap' is the default behaviour, pipermail must be forcibly setting the td to 'nowrap'. So search for 'nowrap' in the pipermail code and remove it, and i am sure a mail archiver if it is written in python would be very simple.
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Hmm, in general, do you think that the mailing-list integration works as well as the rest of the forum? I think the forum is amazing, and i didn't find any other forum that synchronizes with a mailing list as easily (only phpbb, and that needs a mod). But the mailing list integration part seems like it is less well-developed (which is not a fudforum problem necessarily - it's just that mailing lists are old-fashioned, i think, and there are so many mail protocols and mail clients). Maybe i'm missing something though.
Thanks for your thoughts and time.
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Mailing lists have a niche. I mean, as long as there are mails, there will be mailing lists. But forums are more convenient. the problem with mailing lists is that u have to subscribe if u want to get an answer to a simple question, and then it will start flooding ur mailbox with a lot of junk. Forums on the other hand are less intrusive.
Fudforum has a very tight mailing list integration, which is what made it my choice.
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