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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 05:40:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver)
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Chip wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Otter wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Why not turn on line wrapping in Netscape? It's in Edit/Preferences/
> Mail&Newsgroups/Messages. Allows you to specify the column to
> wrap the lines. Not that I use Netscape mail, I use KMail and it also
> does line wrapping at whatever column you specify.
> 
it's personal preference. some of the stuff i work with looks wrong if
i don't have it set like that. i get paid to work. if everyone wraps
them at 70-80, i won't have to worry about the non-work related email
(such as this).
-Otter

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