Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:49:26 PM, Frank wrote:
> Wrapping lines is *one* convention and not the only one. I used to do that, but I
>found that many messages got messed up when people copied and pasted my words.
>Really, for almost 20 years I did
> what you describe. I've come around to thinking that the paragraph separator is
>good for *text* (and people seem to have fewer copy/paste problems, too, ...
>something to think about with these
> long lines). Natually, if I'm sending a snippet of code to some one I'll send it as
>is (usually, margins are less then 80 columns). The only time the very-long-lines
>convention is a problem is
> during *display* ... which is why one of my original points claimed this was a
>*display* issue for The Bat, not an RFC issue. Alexander is the one who started the
>claim that this was all an RFC
> issue ... I just think it's a display preference ... and I hope The Bat will include
>this type of preference in future releases.
> Both conventions are useful. I happen to use very-long-lines for text, and properly
>wrapped lines for code.
No, they are not since, as this message should show, long lines are quoted
as is, not wrapped, as they should be. It means by using long lines in text
you are forcing the people to rewrap everything every time. That is
considered rude.
DO
NOT
DO
IT!
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