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| DATE | 2005-03-02 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] We have truly lost it ....
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Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> When those line feeds aren't right, it screws up HTML browsers and test editors.
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> Ruben
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> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:24:11PM -0500, Martin, Jared wrote:
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>>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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