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Re: Boulder Pledge



On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 02:38, Russell Matbouli wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:06:04PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Of course it wraps. But there's good reasons for 20 years of netiquette.
> > Why don't we start top-posting while we're at it?
> 
> There's an RFC that says a line should be no longer than 78 characters
> long, if you want another reason :)

So I see, but then I wonder: _why_ should lines be no longer than 78
characters? Is this the same reason, or some issue that still applies?

Alex.

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