From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 13:57:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666E337B5BA for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otter@otter.cc) Received: from otter.cc (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15469 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38EEF473.7F79CC66@otter.cc> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 04:57:23 -0400 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > [...] > > >> > > >> Please wrap lines at 70 characters. > > > > > > Why not 80? A normal Terminal (I'm currently on a VT220) has got 80 > > > Chars/Line I think. But that's OT now. > > > > 70 allows a few levels of ">" quote characters without lines being too > > long for an 80 character terminal. But wrapping at 80 is still better > > than not wrapping at all. > > But why wrap the lines? All programs do that automatically, I think. > I'm using pine for my mails, and it does this automatically. > > But please correct me, if I'm wrong. > > Regards, > Freddy Freddy, You're wrong. I'm using Netscape mail. If the sender doesn't set the lines to wrap then it goes off the screen and i have to follow the text out there... if I'm interested in reading it. For those with text mail apps, it's even more of a pain in the ass. With text, you have to chase each line out there. It's not folks being picky. Consider it as a gesture of them pointing you in the direction of what's understood as common courtesy. Regards, Otter p.s. in case you're wondering, mine's set to 70 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message