According to historical records, on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:48:00 -0400 David
T-G wrote about "Re: [PHP] PHP Web Hosting":
>Rene, et al --
>
>...and then -{ Rene Brehmer }- said...
>%
>% According to historical records, on Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:39:33 -0400 John
>% Nichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about "Re: [PHP] PHP Web Hosting":
>%
>% >-{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote:
>% >> At 21:19 19-04-2004, John Nichel wrote:
>% >>
>% >>> Greg Donald wrote:
>% >>>
>% >>>> Your signature is twice the rfc1855 suggested limit.
>...
>% >>>
>% >>> And the RFC1885 'guidelines' are also almost 10 years old. I think
>...
>% >>
>...
>% >
>% >Ahhhh, but the almost 10 year old RFC says this...
>% >
>% >"Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line with a
>% >carriage return."
>%
>% Hmm ... why the heck 65 characters ??? ... Old EGA screens were 80x34
>
>Because by the time you get to the fourth or fifth reply, just as in this
>top-heavy example, the original 65-char line will be shifted over by
>quote markers and be nearing the 80-char screen limit after all.
Ehm ... yes and no ... the client is not supposed to include the signature
when replying ... so that's a mood point ...
>/me fondly remembers a quoting war where the various posters'
>contributions made a string of gibberish over 40 chars long ...
>/me fondly remembers days when different quoting prefixes were
>accepted -- nay, expected -- as well
Many still do their own quote markers (which is bloody annoying when that
means they use spaces as well)...
>% characters, VGA is 80x43 characters ... The reason Usenet standard is 76
>% chars wide messages (today anyways) is that text-mode readers need the last
>% 4 characters to display window borders and control chars along the message
>% lines ...
>
>What "text-mode readers" bother with "window borders"? :-)
The old DOS readers did :p ... well, some of the did ... I never did get
SLRN to work properly ... but that could've been my modem not being entirely
Linux compatible (years ago, I don't use Linux for workstations anymore)...
Rene
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