On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:52, Robin Green wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:39:15PM -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > >PLEASE WRAP YOUR LINES at less than 80 characters per line.
> >
> > What part of wrap lines doesn't he get? - two replies both unwrapped.
>
> It's 2003. Is this rule in place to deal with clients and archiving s/w
> that STILL, in 2003, cannot wrap lines in received mails? Or is there
> some slightly more valid reason?
a) some clients indeed do _not_ wrap mails, and won't wrap mails,
because:
b) some UNIX systems are limited to ~512 character line limits in
text files, including mail, by design; old standard states that's
the maximum line length. (probably for old hardware, but still.)
c) wrapped emails are usable by everyone, non-wrapped mails aren't,
so guess which is more polite to use?
d) it's 2003. do we STILL not have mua's that can just auto-wrap
lines nicely for us?
And if you're not convinced yet, look at:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00003.html
;)
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