On 08 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Parish sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Brian Heinrich wrote:
>> Would you *please* be so kind as to set your line length to something
>> closer to 72 cpi?
>>
>> F***, that's annoying. And if it's annoying me, I can /guarantee/ you
>> it's gonna annoy others.
>>
>
> I understand your annoyance Brian, but I'm using Moz here and it is soft
> wrapping the lines in Jim's posts to the window. This causes the
> occasional long line-short line syndrome but I don't have to scroll
> horizontally to read them.
>
> I agree that 72 char lines would be better though (and yes, I know you
> are not using Moz, but XNews).
I guess I should be glad for everyone's sake that he's not using quoted-
printable. . . . :-P
Please excuse the venting of spleen in my previous posting, but, man, can
that be annoying. . . .
/b.
>> The problem is that the sender shouldn't be placing /any/ burden on the
>> recipient. My newsreader is rendering what you've sent; if you've sent
>> something with unreadably long lines, I have the choice of either
>> scrolling to read what you've written or just to ignore what you've
>> written.
>>
>> /b.
>>
>> <snip />
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