On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:38:20 +0300 Dmitry wrote: > Since there is actually no any sane reason to hardwrap lines,
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:03:05 +0300 Dmitry wrote: > John Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > I sometimes ‹…› do the wrapping by hand. > > But why?? (I hope you do not just hate your correspondents :-) > Do you worry about the ancient SMTP limit of 1000 bytes per there is a reason, actually - just last week, i watched a talk by Kevlin Henney, in which he explained it - the reason why email clients and text editors have the auto-wrapping and column guides features, is because people tend to read better with short lines, around 60-80 characters maximum, which can be read without turning one's head from side-to-side - when lines of text are longer than that, people tend to lose interest you will find that most news/blog websites follow that rule of thumb - books have been printed that way for centuries
