On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:55:10PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Throwing open a poll on the list. Replies to the list.
When posting a message on a mailing list, should the original poster make sure his lines wrap at a particular column, or not? If yes, which column? If yes, or no, why?
Should NOT wrap.
It's upto the displaying application to wrap at the correct place. Most people are not aware about the non-existence of newlines in their mails and the problems they can cause for some mail readers. That is because the editors they use automatically *show* the content wrapped, and they probably have absolutely no idea about "what wrapping is".
Personally, I can't read mails with long lines as my reader does not 'visually wrap' the contents :( But it's probably just some simple setting I never bothered about.