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| DATE | 2005-03-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] We have truly lost it ....
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Its more mind boggling that the email clients don't automatically send
the message wrapped to 80 chars. That is probably because the morons
(TM - W. Donahue enterprises), who make word processors use the line
feed as a paragraph symbol.
Ruben
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:45, Billy wrote:
> Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> > When those line feeds aren't right, it screws up HTML browsers and test editors.
> >
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:24:11PM -0500, Martin, Jared wrote:
> >
> >>What is it with you and linefeeds?
> >>You got on me about that once before.
>
> This is a matter of etiquette. Don't be offended.
> It's not just ME making up this rule.
> I'm trying to help your noob asses learn
> write email that won't get you laughed at
> when you write to real grownups.
>
> Find me a veteran hacker who sends
> 200-column email? You can't.
>
> >>Don't you have a program that automaticly fits the text in the window?
>
> Maybe I do, maybe I don't. The point is that the result
> is probably not formatted the way you intended it to be.
> Linewrapping your messages is YOUR responsibility, not mine.
>
> >>Even my Blackberry does that!
>
> Congratulations, but that's because your blackberry has
> less than 80 fixed-width columns to work with, and it's
> using a proportional font. All bets are off w.r.t. formatting.
> If you're reading mail on a RIMjob, you should be grateful to
> even be able to read it, I suppose.
>
> >>Of course, I may be a newbie and making a fool of myself, but I don't see the big deal.
>
> Well, Google netiquette and message width and see if you can
> convince yourself otherwise.
>
> >>Besides, I believe that linefeeds are only to be used at the end of a paragraph, not each sentence.
>
> Oh, well, you're wrong. You're used to word processing, and email
> is not word processing.
>
> >>Of course, I may be confusing that with another symbol I can't remember the name of.
> >>Be sure to let me know how many characters your screen displays horizontally.
> >>Is that 80X60?
> >>Just kidding. :)
>
> I'm not kidding. I'm often looking at my mail from work over an
> ssh session with a VGA 80 column screen. LOTS of people do.
>
> >>But really what's the deal?
>
> One of the big deals is that I can't blockquote you properly.
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