On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:53:07 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
I think that even for emails, the line length should be kept at a reasonable value in order to maximize the readability. Such value is usually lower than 80, as shown, for example, in https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability . I do have a large screen, but I keep my email/text editors quite narrow in order to allow less than 100 characters per line. Of course YMMV.
Thank you for this link.I've been thinking about describing my personal experiences for some days but this web page explains it much better than I could have written it myself:
Following long lines and than backtracking to the next line is tedious for me; and if I have to turn my head right and left I'm much more prone to just delete a mail than to follow through and complete reading the whole text. -- There's a reason why texts in newspapers are typically in columns and not across the whole page.
I acknowledge that there are people in Debian whose neck and eyes are better than mine, and who have less knowledge about email customs, and who use broken MUAs, and who want me to adjust my terminal size but I'd like to note anyway that I'm not supporting any change in the recommendations for Debian mailing lists, and I'll keep ignoring unreadable emails in the future.
And I'd also like to thank people who pushed me into exploring format=flowed in MUAs and editors further. I enjoy(ed) experimenting with these things :)
Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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