On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:53:54AM +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
good idea to end lines at 65 characters. When most if not all but the most outdated MUA's are able to use wrapping, the guideline seems useless and could be changed.
Client-side wrapping breaks code snippets, log files, URIs and attached text files. I'm not sure this is a good idea.
Emmanuel
coding:
Only if your code extends beyond 65 or 72 characters, whichever you use. I don't know about all languages, but usually more characters won't be very clear coding anyway.
logfiles, URI. I agree, with URI's this is especially annoying.
However, in general I think I understand why the rule was inserted into the netiquette. You don't adjust the majority of messages to a minority of special messages (containing code, log messages etc).
Usually code will be attached in an attachment anyway, except for code snippets. Large logfiles ditto.
Guus. -- A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands, user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
