Re: Width of line

[Andrius <pantor@painter-decorator.eu>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:31:08PM +0000, Andrius wrote:
> > Lads,
> >
> > would you be able to explain one simply thing. About width of line.
> > How many characters should be in the row of typical UNIX (or txt) text file?
> > Were made a signature in ASCII in vim, and when it was attached to 
> > Thunderbird, some rows was broken and ASCII art together. Were suspect that 
> > it has happened because of too many characters in a row, and when some 
> > characters were removed, everything starts to look OK.
> >
> > How many chars should be in text file please?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andrius
>
> Usually less then 80, but <=72 would be a safe bet. BTW, signatures 
> should generally not exceed 5 rows (netiquette).
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

78 was too big. After 72 looks OK.
Is 5 rows really netiquette?

Regards,

Andrius