On 28 Jun 99, at 10:49, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> Before you go thwacking messages with long lines, you should read
> <http://www.imc.org/draft-gellens-format>. I believe that this has (or is
> about to be) an IETF standard. In essence, it says that long lines are not
> only acceptable, but (when labelled) a Good Thing.
Perhaps I didn't read it carefully enough --- could you point me at the
'Good Thing' part? What I read was stuff like:
> When generating Format=Flowed text, lines SHOULD be shorter than 80
> characters. As suggested values, any paragraph longer than 79
> characters in total length could be wrapped using lines of 72 or fewer
> characters. While the specific line length used is a matter of
> aesthetics and preference, longer lines are more likely to require
> rewrapping and to encounter difficulties with older mailers. It has
> been suggested that 66 character lines are the most readable.
Which makes is sure sound that even in the new world of "flowed" text
mailers that send out 300-char-long-lines for entire paragraphs would be
"Bad Things". [Yes, I know it says "SHOULD" and not "MUST" -- that's why
they're just 'Bad' and not 'Banned']
/Bernie\
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