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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : David de Groot <david@viking.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:37:25 +0000

Re: Why do we hate HTML mail?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:31:55PM +0930, David de Groot wrote:

> Oh come on! "Generally accepted as 'best practice'" ??? By whom?
> Sure,  wrapping at 72 is probably a wise and sensible thing to do, but
> nowhere  have I seen anyone claim it to be the "best" column number to
> wrap   at   (except   here  of course), and I've been on the net since
> the days of 1200 baud modems.... *g*

It seems that quite a few "popular" mail clients choose to wrap at 72
characters. It seems that even you seem to thing that it's a good thing
to do, as you've just said above.

The RFC 2822 states that a maximum of 998 characters should be used,
with 78 characters as the recommended length of line, including the
CRLF.

Maybe I was beeing unfair trying to impose my preferences on Dale...

Nah!

   - andrew

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