Width of e-mails

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Mike Sherer wonders:

>By the way, what is the general rule for the width of 
>email text; is it somewhere around 76 characters.
>My previous post illustrates Microsoft Internet Mail
>post-sent-text-wrap.

Mike,

Are you referring to your "DrT's Great..." post or your "Folding Scope"
post?  I'm sure you noticed the former had wrap problems, the latter
did not.  Which one used the post-sent-text-wrap feature?

In digest 1632, John Bercovitz requested:

>Please limit your post's width to 75 columns or fewer so your posts will
>look right to all list members. Here is what 75 columns looks like:

        10        20        30        40        50        60        70
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345

Note that the above will look pretty goofy if you are reading with
a proportionally spaced font.  If you have to size your e-mails
manually by using a guide line like the one above, be sure to do so
using fixed-width font.

I would like to recommend a 72 character limit instead, which allows a
little extra room for the >> reference marks that sometimes cause a
line to go over the limit when it is quoted.

Paul Talbot


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