Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:25:17 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <c9f4fa51-a0d6-4881-a846-c968dd33ad53@unixarea.de> In-Reply-To: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org> References: <00225a04-237d-9051-9aea-12c192106a20@anatoli.ws> <373EDB20-C750-42E2-A41B-EA61F6E49807@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net> <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws> <e1f6623a-3b3c-a43e-446a-d41f20f69418@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.2006101345220.97143@fledge.watson.org> <7018FA7A-32A6-4567-AA5D-1A90FF5FFF6C@kreme.com>
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On Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:44:09 CEST, Kevin P. Neal=20 <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:09:43PM -0600, @lbutlr wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2020, at 11:54, doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> wrote: >> > See=20 >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#id= p44832888 >>=20 >> Seems very out of date too me. For example the first thing it=20 >> says is to wrap messages at 75 characters because not everyone=20 >> uses GUI mailers. This may have been relevant in 1995, but it=20 >> sure isn=E2=80=99t now. CLI MUA=E2=80=99s handle long lines just fine. > > If you had wrapped at 75 characters then the quoting would be much easier > to read. Yes, I always do so. And this has todo with the normal terminal line length of 80 chars, which in turn has todo with the old 80 column punch cards. matthias --=20 Sent from my Ubuntu phone http://www.unixarea.de/ NO to the EU! NEIN zur EU!
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