[Lazarus] [OT/Readability] Re: Error: Generics without specialization cannot be used as a type for a variable

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 10/05/2011 10:38, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> 
> the below code is received as one long line, totally unformatted,
> totally no newlines, quoted by Thunderbird, even in quoting I see one
> long line (reader window wraps it automatically, thus becoming even
> less readable...) 

Yes, that is because his email client sends each email as HTML & Plain
Text, and the plain text is auto-generated, thus rubbish formatting. I
also use Mozilla Thundebird. Peter's email was viewable on my side
because my mailer settings in "View > Message body as > Original HTML",
but when I reply, I post as plain-text, irrespective of what the
original message format was.

One also gets some problems when using a desktop email client, but
posting via Gmail's SMTP server. For some reason Gmail mangles long
Subject lines by inserting TAB characters after the first 50 or so
characters... Very weird, and I haven't found a work-around for that yet.

Very good email clients that don't try and screw too much with ones
emails and formatting are: The Bat, Sylpheed and PM-Mail 2000.

Even Mozilla Thunderbird mangles your emails even with the "plain text"
setting enabled. All this and suggested settings or work-arounds are
covered in a Linux Kernel mailing list documentation page on how to send
patches to the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Here is the link:
  http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/email-clients.txt

This link just proves in what a sad state the emails clients are. No
consistency and standards. What is interesting is that many text based
email clients behave better than the GUI counterparts, in this regard.
It seems Old School rules! :)

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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