In message , R.Wieser
writes:
Hello all,

My newsgroup client, OE, still has an auto-wrap line width set to 76 chars,
and I wondering if it is still called for. Are there still people who still
use a 80-char wide console screen using a client which cannot or doesn't
wrap lines itself ?

I doubt there are many (any?) still using a fixed-width screen. I don't
see that - or the fact that the convention is just old - as a reason to
drop it, though. (After all, you're still using OE!)

In short, is there still a reason to follow this decades old default (or is
it just a case of following it for its own sake) ?

Remark:
While my OE still sends messages auto-wrapped*, it seems to have no problem
with displaying messages that use much longer lines.

My client (Turnpike, 2007) has no problem with displaying (i. e.
rewrapping) _most_ posts. _Some_ do require me to scroll horizontally,
or take other action, to read long lines; oddly, they're often (possibly
always) posts containing posted text, where I can read that text in the
original post no problem.

*forcing me to reformat stuf that I quote - just because a single "" is
prepended.

(I don't usually bother to do that.)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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