On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:52, Robin Green wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:39:15PM -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > > > >PLEASE WRAP YOUR LINES at less than 80 characters per line. > > > > > > What part of wrap lines doesn't he get? - two replies both unwrapped. > > > > It's 2003. Is this rule in place to deal with clients and archiving s/w > > that STILL, in 2003, cannot wrap lines in received mails? Or is there > > some slightly more valid reason? > > a) some clients indeed do _not_ wrap mails, and won't wrap mails, > because: > b) some UNIX systems are limited to ~512 character line limits in > text files, including mail, by design; old standard states that's > the maximum line length. (probably for old hardware, but still.) > c) wrapped emails are usable by everyone, non-wrapped mails aren't, > so guess which is more polite to use? > d) it's 2003. do we STILL not have mua's that can just auto-wrap > lines nicely for us? And if you're not convinced yet, look at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00003.html ;) -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
