Re: Boulder Pledge

[Beat Bolli <bbolli@ymail.ch>]

Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> 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.
There are also still MTAs around that dont't handle longer lines 
(probably not in this list's demography, though... ;-)

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