(Pet Peeve) Format your email please! (was Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python?)

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

One of my largest pet peeves is:

    Email that uses EOLN's (End of Line) greater than 80 columns.

Most MUA's (Mail User Agents) provide a way to specify the column
width for plain-text email (the correct format of email when sending
to email listservers or public forums).  PLEASE use them!

A nice suggestion would be to:

    Use EOLN's < 76 columns.

This will allow at least two reply-to's of the standard reply comment
'> ' to be inserted without running into line wrapping problems.

Otherwise:

    Don't use EOLN's until the end of your paragraph.

This may seem a bad option to some email users, but it is a reasonable
assumption that most clients can wrap lines.  If you don't have odd
EOLN's for each line in the paragraph, it'll wrap nicely and break at
the end of the paragraph.

THANK YOU.

-- 
  Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
              http://wookimus.net/chewie

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