Tek 4014/5 emulation - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jun 2000

On Jun 15, 10:36, Mark Champion wrote:
...
  Peter,

 Sorry for causing any trouble.  I only recently joined this group and I
 wasn't aware of this groups' desire for 80 character line lengths limits. 
Well, the convention is actually for less than 80; there's no set rule but
commonly-mentioned lengths are between 78 and 72.

...
  I never intended to suggest that all email revolves
around MS Outlook. 
That was just my jibe, not to be taken too personally :-)  BTW, though I
wrote that "we had this discussion a few months ago", I realise you may not
have been on this list at the time.

...
  I use it because it works well for me.  I know that
the mail readers in
 Netscape and IE both support autowrap and the ability to size the
 window as desired.  When this approach is used for email, the added
  > (or | | or whichever) characters only appear
at the beginning of each  paragraph, so they don't scramble the contents of the
email.  So, nesting
 can continue forever, if desired.  I (and others) think this is a big
 advantage - especially in mail groups where replies bounce back and
 forth.  But, it's just suggestion. 
Most people I know would disagree.  The idea is to indent paragraphs, a
long-cherished system on Usenet and mailing lists.  Just as it appears in
the paragraph above (you must have turned wrapping on before you composed
it -- thanks for that :-)).

...
  BTW, would it cause you any problems to turn wrap on? 
This way you
 could handle any line length you encountered. 
I *HAD* wrap turned on -- that was my point about losing the indentations.
 I could see what you typed in 78-column form, but there would be others on
this list who wouldn't be able to do that; and when you turn the wrap on,
the wrapped lines still don't get indented/quoted as God intended.

-- 

Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York