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

Mr Macaw wrote:
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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.

Exactly which part(s) of "properly delimited" or/and "irrelevant"
didn't you understand?

The URL was/is fine. *Your* *newsreader* is broken. Live with it or
get a real one.

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.

It's simple enough to get a proper newsreader.

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.

Another subject matter which you're ignorant about. This line-length
(non-)'problem' has a (RFC) standard solution called 'format=flowed'.
Your 'newsreader' claims to use it (also see my other response), but
fscks that one up as well.

Bottom line: Get a newsreader and stop whinging about other people's
newsreaders which are working perfectly fine and in an RFC-complaint
way.

QED.

HTH. HAND. EOD. NK.