On 08/08/02 16:12, Jim Long Replied As Follows: --- Original Message ---
> You're excused, of course!! > > But if I were you, I'd be sending the contents of your spleen at the programmers > who wrote your NG reader! Or is "72 chars per line" specified in the FAQ for this > NG? There is no such limitation/specification written JUST for this newsgroup. 72 characters per line is the standard for most mail and news applications AFAIK. > And still we agree completely as to the annoyance this causes. It's only annoying if it presents a problem. And so far it's not a problem in Mozilla. What IS annoying is not letting the application do the wrapping itself rather than arbitrarily hitting ENTER to effect a CR/LF. This causes ragged sentences, etc. > Funny how this started as a Q about rendering HTML in E-mail (admittedly in a > rather esoteric fashion -- i.e. "Drag & Drop") and now devolves into a > near-flame-war over line length. Ah, the Good Old Days! Looks like they're here > to stay! Yah, remember the good old 40 column days? Hey, join the crowd at 80 now. :-) There's a reason for the 8 less than 80 but I won't go there now. > PS, how do you like 34 chars per line? Well, that's all fine and dandy if we're in a private discussion and we agree on the line length. However, we're in a public forum and the default 72 should be respected. When we're in YOUR house you can arrange the furniture to your liking .... :-) > Brian Heinrich wrote: > >> Please excuse the venting of spleen in my previous posting, but, man, can >> that be annoying. . . . > -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email **
