On Sun, Jan 28, 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:09:58PM -0500,
> Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is thought to have said:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Timberwolf
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Daniel:
> > >
> > > Where is the standard for line wrapping limits set? Is that in an
> > > RFC? If so, can you point me to the RFC that lays out the proper
> > > form for outbound message character wrapping.
> >
> > I don't know if it's in an RFC. But it's long-standing netiquette to do
> > it.
>
> RFC 1855 (the Netiquette RFC) Section 2.1.1, contains the following:
>
> - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
> with a carriage return.
65?!? I thought 72 was a standard. I set it to 70 and thought it was
a nice limit. Wow, and that's only from 1995.
-Ken
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