On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:39, Nick Rout wrote:
> because thats what word wrap does. your mail should be wrapped at about
> 72 chars.
RFC1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) recommends wrapping at 70 characters
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
but this is only a ârule of thumbâ. For those of you who are wondering
why email messages should be narrower than âstandardâ text (which is
formatted at 80 characters [1]), it is to allow space for the multiple >
characters at the beginning of the lines :)
[1] Why text-only terminals are a 80 characters wide is another story
that has a lot to do with punch cards and the old US $1 bill. Just
accept the fact and *never* write text that is over 80 characters
wide. Or elseâ
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
