ANST - Netiquette

[Lord Larkin O'Kane]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:39:03 -0800, "Timothy A. McDaniel"
<tmcd at crl.com> wrote:

<!>I have a request for the list.  Some mail reading software does
<!>automatic line wrap (lines longer than the screen width are split
at
<!>word boundaries to fit), and some do not.  Accomodating
non-wrappers
<!>does not really hurt wrappers, but using long lines can hurt
<!>non-wrappers (when text is hidden, bad line breaks in the middle of
a
<!>word happen, or the screen becomes confused about how many lines
are
<!>on it).
<!>
<!>Therefore, please hit Enter / Return / whatever no more than every
70
<!>characters or so.  80-column widths are moderately comon,
especially
<!>in terminal emulators, and 70 allows for "> " quoting several
layers
<!>deep with convenience.
<!>
<!>-- 

But when you do as Daniel requests you get some horribly mangled
quotes like the above.

By the way, Daniel. What horribly ancient software are you using that
doesn't do wordwrap?

Larkin
===
    The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that,
    but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul,
    finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise. 
			--Mark Twain
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