Hi Bruce and others,

 me> (1) Keep your line lengths (from <CR> to <CR>) less
 > than (say) 65.  If you go up near 80 (the immediate
 > danger point) the shxzt will hit the fan when others
 > quote you using line prefixes like " > ".


 you> Sir:
 > Thanks for the info. I had noticed that when I kept lines short they seem to=
 > =20
 > fare better.
 > 
 > Bruce

Opps, you have just tripped up with a line of
over 75 characters that immediately got nastily
cut, and will probably get nastily cut again as
I resend it.

My hunch is that one needs more than good
intentions to be polite in this respect.  One
needs a razor sharp line cutter in writing or
formatting one's email. The best I know is in
the "Format..." menus of MacSink 7.0, a
shareware from the 1980's.  I am posting it in

      ftp://topo.math.u-psud.fr/pub/lcs/fb/

MacSink may be oldfashioned, but it is *fast*
and *stable* and it runs well under OSX in
classic mode. Incidentally MacSink is by Dave
McWherter, who is the author of MacAssembly,
and Vantage. Our Andy Gariepy built ZBasic and
FBII with MacAssembly. Thus, ZBasic, FBII and
MacSink are cousins; it is no accident that
they still run fine dacades after they were
built!

Cheers

LS

PS. MacSink can tell you the number of characters
in any selection -- using the "Statistics"
item in the "Other" menu.