Hi Tedd, and others

[me]
 >> But as soon as that material gets quoted with
 >> the traditional extra marginal marks the line
 >> ends get mangled by the mail robots and we all
 >> receive chop suey. Yuk!
 >>
 >> So pleeeeease, break your contributions into 
 >> lines of moderate length, say < 60 characters.

[you]
 > Your chop suey analogy is quite appropriate. You see,
 > chop suey is Chinese for "left overs".

Nowadays "chop suey" goes to the pig farm (Oink! Oink!),
but the digests go to me (Yuk! Yuk!).

[you]
 > Now, on to the question at hand. As you can see I don't
 > prescribe to your 60 character, or less, request. I
 > would if I knew how, but I don't.

Well Dave McWherter's MacSink says your max line length
was 74 chatacters. Use the menu "Other:Statistics..." on
any selected line. So you can be safely quoted once or
twice but not more. Given your prolific email output and
deathless prose, you deserve better.

Why not get Vantage (programmable) the big brother of
MacSink? Dave used to lurk on the deja news group:

     comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior

MacSink/Vantage wraps faster than any program I have
seen.

     I have checked my hard disk for alternatives, and 
here is what I found:

 --- QEDM can be programmed for all this, but it is
slower by so much that I use MacSink for my email.
For some other things QEDM is faster than MacSink.

 --- Pete Kehlerer's "alpha" can be programmed for just
about anything in its native tcl, and it has a
lot of pre-programmed email and internet functions.  If
you have a G4 and the patience to learn tcl then it is
definitely worth a look; it is slow and complex but
fascinating in a masochistic way...

 --- Tex-Edit Plus by Tom Bender is a program with a lot
of modern features. It uses the modern "text-edit"
format (text data plus style resource). But it seems
non-programmable and while the key features are there
they are not quite teed up for efficient use.  Adding a
single key for word re-wrap to some length would make it
OK. If you are a Tex-Edit Plus buff it would be worth
writing Tom.

 --- an expensive "\TeX" formatter called Textures
has the same word re-wrap as MacSink.

 --- any major WYSIWYG word processor.  But you have
to remember NOT to put in CRs (use automatic
wordwrap only), and then save as text making an
appropriate choice in doing so.

 --- use Netscape for mail; it seems to limit you to
about 60 char per line.

What is lacking in these last two os *re*-wrapping
of paragraphs poluted with some carriage returns.

     For me the the top recommendation is still to
use MacSink/Vantage, but I would be delighted to
hear of even better solutions, say MacSink/Vantage
updated with the email facilities of alpha.  I still
cut and paste where I would rather just select and
(say) hit a function key to send, or (more spiffy)
drag a selection onto an envelope icon named
"FB_list".
 
             Cheers
 
                  Larry

PS.  Afterthought: maybe one of you could write a
mailbox program so that mailing is no more than dragging
a selection from a modern editor like Tex-Edit onto the
mailbox icon.  Double clicking the icon should fetch
your mail in the form of a directory. Does this already
exist?  The point is to let use use a great editor
and a great mailer rather than bloated congloms like
Eudora.