Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 15:09:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrap line to 72 or 76 in e-mail? Message-ID: <19980705150935.E18970@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <359F04D5.2EA5BD0C@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 12:45:09AM -0400 References: <359F04D5.2EA5BD0C@aei.ca>
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On Sunday, 5 July 1998 at 0:45:09 -0400, Malartre wrote: > Does there is any official page on how to wrap line in e-mails? > 72 characters or 76 characters? Do you mean how to do it, or where to do it? How to do it depends on your mailer. With Netscape, the answer is "with difficulty". I'd recommend using a real editor to write the messages, and getting it to do the wrapping for you. Where to wrap is a matter of taste. Some people put in valid claims for lines as long as 110 characters, which I think is far too large. >From a comfort point of view, I'd say that 90 is getting too much. >From the viewpoint of many people who don't use X, 79 is the limit: after that, lines start wrapping. I personally use 70 characters, though I wonder if it wouldn't be better to use 75. In case you're interested, I've got a fair collection of suggestions at http://www.lemis.com/email.html. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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