On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:02:50PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote:
> LF means "begin next line now". So as an author posting text to a
> forum, at what point do you need an LF? Not after XX width, because
> that makes poor assumptions about the readers medium (is it an LCD, or
> a phone?).
So you don't make an assumption about the e-mail client of any reader
on the list...not even that their MUA displays very long lines correctly,
right? So, you can't assume that it wants very short lines, or likes
very long lines, or somewhere in-between. I guess that means you can't
send the message at all, right? Somewhere, you have to make as
assumptino.
At this time, the generally accepted assumption is to wrap at around
72--76 characters (with the obvious exception of posting code, etc.,
where lines may often end up longer unless you escape the newline and
continue the line of code (indented, of course) on the next line. As
others have also mentioned, lines that don't wrap---not everyone uses
Mutt or other smart MUAs, and even if you do, in a wider xterm, the
longer lines can be much more difficult to read---they are for me,
anyways, so I usually just delete the message without even bothering
with it (if I'm using a wider xterm or an e-mail client that doesn't
correct the line length, or gets it wrong).
Later,
--jim
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