Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

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Subject: Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters
From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:34:45 +0000
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 06:30:00PM +0100, thomas@goirand.fr wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2025 12:02, Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> wrote:
> > actually struggle to read the hard-wrapped-at-80-then-wrapped-again text.
> The standard for email is 74 chars, not 80...

RFC2822 says 78 characters.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822#section-2.1.1

J.

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- Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters
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