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Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list [message #26618 is a reply to message #26548]

Fri, 29 July 2005 10:29

ligesh

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How dare these fucking morons arbitrarily break the line at 80chars (Which is that they expect people to do.). What is the fucking logic behind the 80chars? Just because in the old time PC's had only 80characters.

The irritating thing is these buggers all have a holier than thou attitude and say that anybody who refuses to follow their stupid conventions r somehow breaking some holy laws of their religion.

The wrapping is the job of the final display software. It can wrap it according to how long is the display system at its end. The sender cannot know, and should not make any assumptions regarding that. What if i am using a terminal which has less than 80columns? The message will be comepletely unreadable, with lines getting broken arbitrarily. If you send a paragraph as a single line, it will work in any display system.

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		"wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Tue, 26 July 2005 22:06
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Tue, 26 July 2005 22:21
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Tue, 26 July 2005 22:49
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Tue, 26 July 2005 22:53
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Wed, 27 July 2005 03:30
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Wed, 27 July 2005 05:27
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Wed, 27 July 2005 13:12
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Thu, 28 July 2005 05:42
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Thu, 28 July 2005 13:06
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Fri, 29 July 2005 10:19
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Fri, 29 July 2005 17:52
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Fri, 29 July 2005 18:03
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Fri, 29 July 2005 18:18
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Fri, 29 July 2005 10:29
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Fri, 29 July 2005 18:21
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: tymp on Fri, 29 July 2005 21:30
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: Ilia on Fri, 29 July 2005 21:38
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Sat, 30 July 2005 18:53
		Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list By: ligesh on Sat, 30 July 2005 18:56

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