On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:54:42PM -0600, David Young wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:27:19PM +0100, Holger Weiß wrote: > > * David Young <dyo...@pobox.com> [2012-11-20 11:59]: > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:42:13PM +0000, John Long wrote: > > > > Take some responsibility for yourself and your content. Post like a man > > > > not > > > > a webbot. > > > > > > I cannot believe people are still hewing to this old line. It's like > > > thousands of people fell asleep at their teletypes (I mean the kind that > > > printed on paper) in the 1970s and woke up in 2012. > > > > The point is not supporting teletypes (though I do print emails to paper > > quite regularly in 2012), but readability. Extending the line length to > > more than 70 or 80 characters significantly reduces readability. > > Of course the point is not supporting teletypes. But if the point > is readability, why uphold the readability conventions from another > time, medium, and technology like nothing has changed in email content, > volume, or the variety and capabilities of clients?
Because the human eye, and the way it is mounted and controlled, together with the human visual cortex and the way it processes stimuli, have not changed at all in that interval, and that is the technology which these conventions address. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu I don't do "doorbusters".
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