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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Re: question about nowar forum

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:45:18 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Krishna E. Bera wrote:

> hmm yes you are right.
> when archiving these emails to web we should either 
>    word wrap messages 
> or not use the <pre> tag.

  Anyone is free to participate in the FLOSS project at
http://www.flora.org/flora/forumdb/ to improve that software, or produce 
their own local version for a given site.

  There is no simple technological solution to this problem.  If you
word-wrap messages or drop the <pre> tag then other aspects of the message
(long URL's, ascii-art and tables, etc) will be broken.

  The real solution is to get people to word wrap their own text messages
properly when the message is sent.  This archiver is not the only software
out there that will break with one-paragraph=1-line email software.  The
fix is with the sender of the message, not with the software used to
archive them.

> i will look it
> -krishna
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:17:42 -0500
> Paul Gross <paul@paulgross.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Krishna,
> > 
> > Messages without line breaks are hard to read on the web site, e.g.,
> > http://www.flora.org/nowar/forum/3803
> > 
> > I am wondering:
> > 	- Can this be rectified on the site, either by wrapping the text or adding
> > line breaks?
> > 	- I am the only person who is driven crazy by this? Does everyone else read
> > by e-mail and not on the web?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > - Paul

---
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