On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:53:11 -0000, bz wrote:

"Peter Hucker" wrote in
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No, the standard is to wrap it at something less than 80 chars. Not
wrapping text is *rude*.

Not a lot of people still have 80 column screens.

Doesn't matter. See below.

Yours might be 120
for example. Your software should wrap my text at 120. If you make the
window a bit smaller, it'll wrap to 100, etc. Even Notepad can wrap to
window!!!


There is a problem with people that insist that THEY have a special
dispensation to violate long established rules of the road, like the long
established usenet rule of the road that says 'thou shalt wrap thine text
at less than 76 before you rap on usenet, otherwise other usenet users will
consider you a kook and will soon cease to see anything you post because
you will earn a permanent place in their killfiles.'

[quote from http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php ]

Make sure your lines are no longer than 72 to 76 characters in length.

Once again, you can't assume that all e-mail and news clients behave like
yours, and while yours might wrap lines automatically when the text reaches
the right of the window containing it, not all do.

If Windows Notepad can wrap, so can any email client. It's not rocket Science. My ZX Spectrum used to do it for christ's sake.

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