Mike,

Important to this discussion is the fact that your OE msg is f=f;
format=flowed.

While /composing/ the message ? Sure. But when the message is /send/
those lines are broken up to be no longer than that 76 char limit.

To be honest, I have no idea why the OE people did not make composing window
show what the message would look like when its posted (in short: WYSIWYG) -
including obeying the "send as plain text" setting - I still can put all
kinds of text formatting (size, color, etc) into the composition window
(which disappear on sending, and /only/ than). :-(

When I used OE, I found OE Quote-Fix by Dominik Jain to be invaluable.

I've heard about it, but if there is no need to hard-wrap such quote-fixing*
isn't really needed.

*as quote prefixes can differer between clients - and possibly not
recognised by a program - I will stil need to double check. And as I'm as
lazy as they come ... :-)

But ... the question is: Do I (still) need to hard-wrap long lines on
sending ? Or may I expect that most modern-ish readers* will (be able to)
do such wrapping themselves ?

*As, or more recent than OE6 on XP I mean.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser