On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > The reason most people > suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals are 80 characters wide, and > 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with "> " four times. Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), I sometimes wonder if email conventions should be derived from limitations of such ancient hardware. In some sense, its a good practice to require as little as possible from the clients, but is 80x25 a limit that anyone is facing anymore? I guess new limits come with pocket computers, mobile telephones, and whatever means people read their mail with these days. So, a better argument for wrapping lines at 72 chars would perhaps be that it make the text easier to read (even if you have real screen estate that could handle a lot more). -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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