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Re: Width of line



On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:46:30 pm Andrius wrote:

> 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK.

78 doesn't leave enough for the next person to reply, 72 is the rule of thumb 
to stay under 80 after quoting.

> Is 5 rows really netiquette?

4, actually.  The McQuarry Limit.
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/McQuary-limit.html

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Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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