*- On 23 Jul, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the
lists"
> On 22-Jul-99, you wrote:
>
>>> An observation from this Newbie may be related:
>
> <snip>...
>
>>
>> My pet peeve is mail that is all on one line and not properly word
>> wrapped, such as this one.
>
> Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK
> regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM & Outlook) -
> for me, reading:
>
I quote RFC 1855 titled 'Netiquette Guidelines'
[...]
2.1 User Guidelines
2.1.1 For mail:
[...]
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
[...]
IMNHO +/- 10 characters of that is acceptable. Not all mail reade
rs will auto wrap a long line. And if they do they don't always kn
ow about words and just split the words(like this paragraph), whic
h looks sloppy and is difficult to read.
Just my 2 bits.
--
Brian
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