Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:28:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, wsanchez@apple.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c buf.c compat.c cond.c di Message-ID: <XFMail.000712102840.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <396CA4E7.24D3C35B@newsguy.com>
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On 12-Jul-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: >> >> Bill: >> > >From rfc 1855: >> > >> > - Don't run off the end of a line and simply let the terminal wrap; >> > use a Carriage Return (CR) at the end of the line. Also, don't >> > assume your screen size is the same as everyone else's. A good >> > rule of thumb is to write out no more than 70 characters... >> >> Sorry, don't buy it. I write a paragraph. How it's presented to you >> should be the job of your reader, not the sender. My reader deals just >> fine with long lines. In fact, if you wrap to 70, and I have a window >> only 50 wide, your wrapping is quite annoying, because I then get all of >> these newlines in mid-line for no good reason. Assuming everyone has an >> 80-wide display is bogus, or at least anachronistic. > > What's your reader doing wrapping lines? It should cut them at the > margin and let you scroll horizontally. Ahem. Geez. I use a _real_ mail client which adds newlines to my outgoing mail and wraps incoming mail for me if needed (all togglable of course). What ever happened to the notion of trying to accept anything you get and trying to send content that will work everywhere? I thought that was kind of a basic principle in networking software? As opposed to insisting that there is only One True Way(tm) for mail? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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