[ale] Odd WTF question

BBBB brad.list at thingbuilder.com
Sun Aug 14 19:40:33 EDT 2011


Your message shows no extra returns when read on my mac with Thunderbird 
but as you can see, shows all the empty lines in the reply.

Bradley

On 8/14/11 5:54 PM, Drifter wrote:
> Recently wrote a longish letter to the president of my Condo Assoc. and
>
> copied my wife, who uses a Mac.
>
> As in this note, I placed an extra <Return> at the end of each paragraph.
>
> But when the email appeared on her Mac screen, those extra LFs had been
> stripped out. The paragraphs appeared to have been run together and the
> only clue about the beginning of a new paragraph was the remaining CR at
> the end of the last line.
>
> When I hit the <Enter> key on this keyboard, I am assuming it sends both
> CR and LF and another tap on the <Enter> key sends the second LF. Am I
> wrong in that assumption? Is the Mac stripping out the extra LFs? or is
> something else between the KMail editor and my ISP responsible?
>
> For the record, I use KMail for all routine emails.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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