[Tutor] Comment on http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[Alan Gauld]

On 27/08/13 03:48, Chris Down wrote:

> "Keep the width of the lines in your example to under 62 characters wide."
>
> I don't really see any reason to use less than 79 in 2013.

The reason for preferring shorter lines is to leave room for
the chevrons when the message gets quoted multiple times.

eg

 >>>>>> I don't really see any reason to use less than 79 in 2013.
 >>>>> The reason for preferring shorter lines is to leave room for
 >>>>> the chevrons when the message gets quoted multiple times.
 >>>> That's just crazy
 >>> Maybe but its the reason given
 >> I prefer using different colours the way Outlook does it
 > But that needs rich text and I hate rich text

And that's a whole new discussion ;-)


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