on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:38:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder (carla@bratgrrl.com) wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
<...>
> > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly
> > recommend 72 as a good default.
> >
>
> It reads fine in Kmail. Maybe your reader is funky.
First off, this _is_ a standard that's specifically mentioned in the
list policies.
Secondly, it displays fine, and I can reflow the text readily enough.
It's mailers that can't reflow, won't wrap, or wrap and tag arbitrary
numbers of quote prefix headers that cause endless confusion.
Various web archives treat this situation differently. In some
browsers, text of this sort ends up as very long lines scrolling to the
right. Annoying at best. For multiple-messages-on-one-page archives,
this can effectively break an entire archive. It's the sort of thing
that many weblogs introduce code for to break up long strings of
unbroken text (e.g.: Slash, Scoop).
Third, are you impugning my mutt? ;-)
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Data corrupts. Absolute data corrupts absolutely.
-- Ed Self's corollary of Atkinson's Law.
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