Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 02:38, Russell Matbouli wrote: > >>On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:06:04PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> >>>Of course it wraps. But there's good reasons for 20 years of netiquette. >>>Why don't we start top-posting while we're at it? >> >>There's an RFC that says a line should be no longer than 78 characters >>long, if you want another reason :) > > > So I see, but then I wonder: _why_ should lines be no longer than 78 > characters? Is this the same reason, or some issue that still applies? > > Alex. > There are also still MTAs around that dont't handle longer lines (probably not in this list's demography, though... ;-)
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