> > This is a mailing list; the rules here are pretty much the same as
> > Usenet: your reputation will really honest-to-$DEITY live and die on 72
> > character hard wrapped lines, blank lines between paragraphs, no HTML,
> > and a clean signature.
> >
> > I am not, as the saying goes, making this up.
>
> So wait... by 'real' email client, you mean ELM?
Mutt, actually.
> Seriously... what kind of standard is 72-character hard-wrapped lines?
> I haven't seen that since we all wrote on 80-character terminals. Which
> are not what I'd call 'real' email clients.
Then you don't hang out on Usenet, or many technical mailing lists.
The *vast* majority of messages I see on my 19 mailing lists (over 500
messages a day) are hard wrapped, where they're not HTML -- and we
strongly discourage HTML; many lists hard-bounce it. And with good
reason:
Hell, even Outlook Web Access with Exchange 5.5 wraps replies to 78
columns. I was pleasantly surprised to find out. Still cant mark
quotes properly.
You came up out of Fidonet, didn't you? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates
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St Petersburg FL USA
+1 727 647 1274
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