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[OT] line wrap length netiquette



On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:31:53PM +0200, David Gómez wrote:

> > LINE WRAPPING!!!!!  72 characters!   :-)
> I've seen several times this advice in the list, and i wanted to ask: Why?
> Allister gave some links to FAQ's, but i didn't see the response there...

Ah.. the FAQ I was talking about was regarding tag-prefix.
For netiquette guidelines, including line length:
 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
(actually, they recommend 65 as a maximum.. depends how many levels of
quoting you expect, I guess.)

Ciao,
 Allister

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