Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by qw on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:19AM (#11695435)

The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by MichaelGG on Saturday May 14, 2016 @11:52AM (#11696634)

That reason probably is good. Some mail clients wrap at 78 chars. Result is that the text doesn't flow. Larger window and text doesn't fill, smaller and you get staggered lines. For most Outlook users, it makes sense to convert this into something more readable.

I think there is an option to change its behaviour.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by Teckla on Saturday May 14, 2016 @11:47AM (#11696612)

The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess

There's an option in Outlook to turn that "feature" off, but of course, nobody does.

It's a horrible, terrible default feature of Outlook.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by ams6110 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:18PM (#11697378)

It's also their problem. They send me HTML and I have to deal with that. I send them plain text, so they can do likewise.

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