long lines of interesting and educational posts to usenet ;-)
Hi y'all!
Just for your information,
lines longer than 78 characters make it uncomfortable for me
to read otherwise very interesting posts, since I still use
a conventional news-reader like slrn on a terminal.
Panning is possible but as I said: uncomfortable.
That is why usenet etiquette mentions:
RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines October 1995
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
This is even more restrictive than what I politely asked for, namely
78chars. I'm no usenet-police, just a reader speaking in my behalf.
I'm sorry to have ruffled a few feathers. As I said, your posts are
interesting and most welcome.
Have a nice day and keep up the good work.
Eike ZP6CGE
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