ANST - Netiquette

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

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.

-- 
Daniel de Lincoln
Tim McDaniel.   Reply to tmcd at crl.com; if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com
is work account.  tmcd at tmcd.austin.tx.us ... is wrong tool.  Never use this.

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