Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:41:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Frederik Meerwaldt <Meerwaldt@t-online.de> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver) Message-ID: <20000408144150.A4381@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004081736070.1836-100000@server.wes.mee.com>; from Meerwaldt@t-online.de on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 05:37:46PM %2B0200 References: <20000408135602.G4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004081736070.1836-100000@server.wes.mee.com>
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* Frederik Meerwaldt <Meerwaldt@t-online.de> [000408 14:13] 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. Mailers built for other platforms take great strides to make email sent with them as annoying to read as possible for us text/mutt users. Microsoft 'Lookout!'(*) likes to quote messages as if you were forwarding the message back to the person and sticking your commentary on top which leads to a really annoying to read email. Lookout also doesn't wrap long lines, or decideds to at the wrong time, you should see some of the horrific emails I get that've been through a couple of rounds of Lookout, Netscrape and Eudora, they're hardly recognizable as english by the third or fourth round through these awful mailers. And to the unix haters that complain about '>From', well you can bite me. :) (*) thanks Terry, I love that one. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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