yeah. Or you can use http://www.tinyurl.com/ ...which seems to be a WHOLE lot easier to me. Jacob Haller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you post using the web interface then your messages get wrapped > every 76 characters. That's because the HTML for that part of the > form is: > > <textarea name="3" cols="76" rows="20" wrap="hard" > id="message"></textarea> > > which creates a text box 76 characters wide and forces text to wrap > if it exceeds that width. > > This part of the form is ultimately derived from the OBJECT-P1-TEXT > web template. > > To modify it, go to the mailing list management page for the mailing > list, click on 'Templates', click on 'Switch to WWW templates', > select 'Posting Interface Web Pages' next to 'Select a Category', and > find OBJECT-P1-TEXT. > > You'll see: > >> +SE GETTPL <input type="hidden" name="&+PART-NAME;" >> value="_TXT_">&+BR; +SE GETTPL &+GETTPL;<textarea >> name="&+PART-NAME;" cols="76" >> rows="20" wrap="hard" id="message">&+PART_TXT;</textarea> > > Get rid of the 'wrap="hard"' part: > >> +SE GETTPL <input type="hidden" name="&+PART-NAME;" >> value="_TXT_">&+BR; +SE GETTPL &+GETTPL;<textarea >> name="&+PART-NAME;" cols="76" >> rows="20" id="message">&+PART_TXT;</textarea> > > and click on 'Update'. > > Now if you go back to the posting page you should see that the > 'wrap="hard"' part of the '<textarea ...' line is gone, and if you > post a message with a long line it should go through unwrapped. > > This means that if you want other parts of the text to still be > wrapped, you will need to introduce the line feeds manually. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [log in to unmask] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager MSN IM: [log in to unmask] Department of Physics ph: 979-845-7801 Texas A&M University fax: 979-845-2590