On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 04:14, Dan Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:40, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > 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? > > It's easier to read text when it's wrapped at 78 characters in my > opinion. Evolution will just wrap your text at the edge of the window > which in my case is a lot bigger. Same thing goes for most GUI mailers. > It also looks really bad when someone > replies and quotes your text as only one '>' is inserted. Excellent point. I suppose mail readers should insert extra '>' whenever quotations are wrapped, but this can't really be done consistently or cleanly. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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