Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 16:24, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > Please set your Mozilla "create email" window to wrap at
> > column 72. That also is "standard". (So that multiple
> > replies don't cause line to exceed column 72, I keep my
> > lines to 65 columns, but that's just preference...)
>
> The point of limiting original text to 72 columns is that you can have a
> few layers of reply text before the original gets pushed out past 80
> columns. There's nothing at all objectionable about quoted lines being
> longer than 72 columns; it's 80 columns that's the real limit, because
> some people still read mail in 80-column console mode (or, as in my
> case, an 80-column-wide xterm).
Good to know. I thought that 72-column was part of the RFC...
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