Life after PMMail

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Michael Baum wrote:
> I must have deleted the doubtlessly extensive list discussion on line-length etiquette without reading or noting it. I noticed, of course,  that you made this comment in your reply to my original note, but I decided, mindful of the value of time to both of us, to ignore it as an unexplained datum. Tha' understand, I don't get out much. Anyway, Mr. Morrison implies that it's a real thigh-slapper.
 
> Why is that? I generally reflow messages on sending to some very long string length on the theory that the reader's mail client can happily wrap them to fit whatever size message window it currently has open. It avoids that annoying comb-tooth text effect when a mail program has inserted hard carriage returns every so often to enforce a particular line length which happens to be longer than the width of my default message window.
 
> I collect this is Not The Done Thing? Why?

    Because as you can see above, most email clients do the correct thing and
preserve line length when quoting.  Now you have a paragraph with one quote
marker.  Accepted line length is <78 characters (72-76 is often cited).

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