Re: Width of line

2008-03-21 Thread Johan Kullstam
t;>>>> Lads, >>>>> >>>>> would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. >>>>> How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) >>>>> text file? >>>>> Were made a signature in A

Re: Width of line

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:46:30PM +, Andrius wrote: > 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. > Is 5 rows really netiquette? > No, it's 4[1]. But don't take my word for it. What does google say with query: netiquette "number of lines in sig" [1] :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Width of line

2008-03-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-09 17:02:26 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:46:30 pm Andrius wrote: > > > 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. > > 78 doesn't leave enough for the next person to reply, 72 is the rule > of thumb to stay under 80 after quoting. I agree. However, for a signature,

Re: Width of line

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 March 2008 03:39:33 pm Andrius wrote: > Look at that. It is a signature for one politics forum. Looks cool, is it? It features a BUAF that doesn't get preserved when viewed in a variable-width font. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: Width of line

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:46:30 pm Andrius wrote: > 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. 78 doesn't leave enough for the next person to reply, 72 is the rule of thumb to stay under 80 after quoting. > Is 5 rows really netiquette? 4, actually. The McQuarry Limit. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/h

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Andrius wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 17:39, Andrius wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Yes. It's not as important now, though, as when modems were *slow*, > monitors small, and disk space expensive. > > Just don't go crazy. > >> >> > Look at that. It is a signature for

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: >>> Lads, >>> >>> would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. >>>

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached

Re: Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +, Andrius wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. > How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? > Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it

Width of line

2008-03-08 Thread Andrius
Lads, would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line. How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file? Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached to Thunderbird, some rows was broken and ASCII art together. Were suspect that