Gmail why you...

So Google bought Blogger, right? All their products work hand-in-hand full of loving good wishes, right?

Then why do posts emailed from my Gmail account get all wacky with the line breaks?

Actually, I guess the real problem is why does Gmail force line wrapping on plain-text emails? Is this an anachronistic holdover? Is there a reason to force formatting on what should be a mutable set of data?

This has long plagued me in trying to copy email text (for plagiarism) from one application to another. Trying to replace the manual line breaks (\n) but preserve the intended line breaks (\n\n) is annoying. And I think we've all seen what happens after about fifty forwards (those funny emails from grandma) -- those >> carets take up more and more room, pusing each line over, where it then breaks off the last word to a new line.

I've got one word for you, Gooogle -- FIXIT.