On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:38:14 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Mr Macaw wrote:
[...]
Why should everyone reading it have to copy and paste things back
together because some moron is using a newsreader that splits a SINGLE
WORD. Even if you want 70 char lines because you still use a tiny
little green screen linux system, FFS do NOT wrap a single word.

Here's an idea! If you would have *read* the sub-thread, you would
have read that the "moron"'s newsreader is behaving perfectly
well/compliant and that "everyone" is only those people with a *broken*
newsreader.

The URL was properly delimited (with '' and ''), so any folding is
irrelevant. Period.

If it folds onto two lines, it's split in half and has to be joined back up manually before you can visit the page. It's simple enough to have en exception to the 70 char function in your newsreader so a URL falls off the end. You don't have to see it all after all.

But considering that the lines your newsreader emits are non-compliant
(too long), I can understand that it sucks to be one in the set
"everyone".

They're only too long for people with narrow screens that have newsreaders so crappy that they can't wrap to your own bloody window, which the simplest of text editors (Windows Notepad) manages. My lines have no ends, therefore each person can read them at the length of their choosing. People who insert carriage returns are dictating that they must be read at that width. That's inconsiderate.

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