Mitchell D. Miller wrote:
> Why should line length be limited at all?  Your reader should automatically
> split the lines at the right hand margin of your screen, and automatically
> format each paragraph for you.  This allows those of us with 80 char tubes
> to be able to see the information formatted correctly along with those that
> have 132+ column displays.

No, it should certainly *not* do that.  Formatting is done by the
*sending* programming.  If the receiving were to reformat the message,
it is very possible that data loss could occur.  A primary example
would be the diagrams often done in ASCII art.  If the receiving
program were to reformat the message as you suggest the diagram would
be rendered completely useless.  Another example would be any sort of
table where data was sorted into columns.

Whle on the subject of despised things - my pet peeve are email
programs that send the message as an attachment.  Even worse are the
ones sending HTML.  Remarkably obnoxious.
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