Re: Width of line

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

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/08/08 16:46, Andrius wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes.  It's not as important now, though, as when modems were *slow*,
> monitors small, and disk space expensive.
>
> Just don't go crazy.
>
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Forget to explain. Upper note means "My vote for Paksas", below "Adamkus 
is a trouble for Lithuania".

Made with Vim!

Regards,

Andrius