Subject: Re: MHonArc mail archive line wrapping

From: RJ Atkinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:18:53 -0500

Earlier, Stuart Chesire wrote:
> In the MHonArc mail archive there are often super-long lines, which would be wrapped to the window width when viewing in most mail clients, but when viewed in a web browser they appear as long singlelines which take a lot of left-to-right scrolling to read them.
> For example: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/renum/current/ msg00060.html>
> This appears to be due to MHonArc's use of the PRE tag, which tells the web browser to display the literal text exactly as given, in a fixed-width font.
> The MHonArc FAQ suggests a couple of solutions to this problem:
> 
> 
> Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages?
> 
> <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#lineclip
> >
> 
> 
> Can the <PRE> tags be removed from converted messages?
> 
> <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#removepre
> >
> 
> Can we consider using either of these options?

Yes, please.  

If either fix could be deployed for web archives of the sundry
mailing lists, both @ietf.org and @irtf.org, that would be VERY kind.

Thanks,

Ran