[SDL] Disappearing newlines

[Mike Powell]

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 01:28:04 Mike Powell wrote:
>> Okay, is there a reason that the mailing list keeps stripping out half the
>> newlines and making messages nearly unreadable?
> 
> It doesn't, your mails arrive fine here. The only issue I might have is that 
> you don't break your lines at e.g. 75 characters, but to be honest I consider 
> that habit a bit outdated anyway.
> 
> That said, your reply to David Olofson had the quoting of what necronology 
> wrote messed up, it was all on one line including the quote markers ('>') and 
> was TOFU, which I hereby frown upon because it is inefficient.
> 
> So, I guess it's your client...

What you're describing is precisely what I was talking about. Every instance where I used a newline, one fewer newline came in the result. If I used one newline, the message I got back had none. If I used two newlines, the message I got back had one. Thus, all the places where you see newline are places where I had double newlines, and my quoted paragraphs got munged because they were full of single newlines.

I just went back to find the other recent examples of this in other people's messages, and noticed that every one of them is a reply to necrology's original Delta Time message. David Olofson's first reply looks a little messed up, then Paul Lowe's, necrology's and my replies to David all came out munged. I have no idea what could possibly have been in necrology's message to cause replies to it to have this problem. I'm assuming this message will come out fine.

My client is Thunderbird, which I believe is pretty heavily used. It may be partially Thunderbird's fault, but it was interacting with something funky in that message or on this list, because this doesn't typically happen.