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| | | I thought 80 was the number. That was the number when I started using the internet around 6 years ago. Has it been revised? Build On! John Matthews ___...___ ____ 12345678901234567890...7890123456 7890 Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Length of lines —John Matthews
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| | | | | Heh, guess my reader is set to 76! :) M$ default, I suspect. Build On! John Matthews John Matthews <jmatthew@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:GCu517.1Kv@lugnet.com... (...) ___...___ (...) 12345678901234567890...7890123456 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Length of lines —Kevin Bannister
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| | | | | (...) If it was 80, and most screens were 80x24, as soon as the first quote happened it would wrap wrong. :) 72 has been the de-facto standard for as long as I can remember (i think? was it ever mentioned in an RFC?). (24 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Length of lines —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) 80 is the width of the "standard" screen, but messages should be wrapped somewhat before that. (24 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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