On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:09:58 +0200 Sami N��t�nen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:41, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:37:46 -0500 > > > > Peter Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As an etiquette on a public mailing list, can you please configure > > > your mailer to set width of your posts? Not every user, esp. UNIX > > > user, can read lines longer than 80 characters. > > > > I'm not sure what the problem is. My line wrap is set to 72 > > characters, and this has always worked in the past. > > And besides the RFC says that the wrapping is up to the reader not > sender, which is by the way the right way. This way everyone can read > the mails in their desired width. > RFC or no, many (on this and other mailing lists) prefer to use (moderately broken? IMO) character-oriented mail readers that can't handle long lines very well, so I am only too happy to adjust my sending settings as needed. I normally run with line length set to 72, but I must have slipped up the last time I installed sylpheed-claws. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
