From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 07:14:24 MDT
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [eugen]
> Any reason why the quoting on most posts here is
> broken? (And the lines are overlong to boot)?
>
> [rhinoceros]
> Normally, I don\'t use manual line breaks. I assume
> that your mail client will do the line-wrapping. Do
Line-wrapping, yes. Like-breaking, no. So if I want to quote you, the
overlong lines will not be quoted correctly.
> you think we should use line breaks, like in this one?
> If so, how long should the lines be?
The canonical line length, of course <80 chars/line. Overlong URLs are
permitted, of course.
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