Frank Farance
Sat, 25 Dec 1999 17:55:21 -0800
At 15:54 1999-12-25 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:49:26 PM, Frank wrote: > > Wrapping lines is *one* convention and not the only one. I used to do that, but I >found that many messages got messed up when people copied and pasted my words. >Really, for almost 20 years I did > > what you describe. I've come around to thinking that the paragraph separator is >good for *text* (and people seem to have fewer copy/paste problems, too, ... >something to think about with these > > long lines). Natually, if I'm sending a snippet of code to some one I'll send it >as is (usually, margins are less then 80 columns). The only time the very-long-lines >convention is a problem is > > during *display* ... which is why one of my original points claimed this was a >*display* issue for The Bat, not an RFC issue. Alexander is the one who started the >claim that this was all an RFC > > issue ... I just think it's a display preference ... and I hope The Bat will >include this type of preference in future releases. > > > Both conventions are useful. I happen to use very-long-lines for text, and >properly wrapped lines for code. > > No, they are not since, as this message should show, long lines are quoted > as is, not wrapped, as they should be. It means by using long lines in text > you are forcing the people to rewrap everything every time. That is > considered rude. FYI, here's what long lines look line when you respond to them in another mailer. > True. But I was mainly interested in "logical" lines ... which can be arbitrarily >long, right? That's the way I read RFC 2045. I only referenced RFC 822 because >Alexander said that long lines violated RFC 822. In one of my prior messages, I >suggested that the focus is really RFC 2045. It's really the *display* issue in The Bat. No one is forced to re-wrap ... only users of The Bat need to re-wrap. -FF ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Farance, Farance Inc. T: +1 212 486 4700 F: +1 212 759 1605 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.farance.com Standards, products, services for the Global Information Infrastructure -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------