levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (03/23/90)
In article <48.260A1070@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> Philip.Craig@p27.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Philip Craig) writes: |In a message to All [22 Mar 90 06:27:00] Christopher Silverberg writes: | | >In article <10953@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael | >Thomas Niehaus) writes: | |>>> Philip Craig - via FidoNet node 1:282/33 | >>I'm really getting tired of these messages that go flying off the right hand | >>side of my screen. Please put a return at the end of every line (and if | >I think it must be YOUR system, or your terminal setup causing the problems. | >I haven't seen any messages that fly dont format appropriately across the | >screen. If the message does not contain returns, then your terminal program | >should autowrap appropriately. You're a mac person... you should know that. |So which is it, UseNeters? Do I need to do something about my setup, |or is Chris right? If I've got my attributions right, Mr. Niehaus is right. There should be no lines longer than 80 characters. If you are reading news with some Mac program, maybe it softwraps by word for you. I mostly read from a Sun, which character wraps making it hard to read. Some readers don't wrap at all, making it impossible. And if I want to print an article for later study, no wrapping is done. Usenet guidelines for posting specify a maximum line length of 80 characters. |I don't want your opinion of FidoNet adversely affected by such things either. It is not just FidoNet (though often it is); sometimes people compose articles on other systems with an editor which does soft word wrapping for them (i.e. new lines on the screen display but not in the text file) and don't realize it. Thanks for fixing it. /JBL = Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's or {...}!bbn!levin | bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she POTS: (617)873-3463 | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (03/24/90)
As quoted from <53995@bbn.COM> by levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin): +--------------- | In article <48.260A1070@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> Philip.Craig@p27.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Philip Craig) writes: | |In a message to All [22 Mar 90 06:27:00] Christopher Silverberg writes: | | >In article <10953@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael | | >Thomas Niehaus) writes: | |>>> Philip Craig - via FidoNet node 1:282/33 | | >>I'm really getting tired of these messages that go flying off the right hand | | >>side of my screen. Please put a return at the end of every line (and if | | >I think it must be YOUR system, or your terminal setup causing the problems. | |So which is it, UseNeters? Do I need to do something about my setup, | | If I've got my attributions right, Mr. Niehaus is right. There should | be no lines longer than 80 characters. If you are reading news with | some Mac program, maybe it softwraps by word for you. I mostly read | from a Sun, which character wraps making it hard to read. Some | readers don't wrap at all, making it impossible. And if I want to | print an article for later study, no wrapping is done. +--------------- Fidonet messages use soft carriage returns, even when transferred between machines. The Fido-to-Usenet gateway should be inserting hard carriage returns in messages mained at the Usenet. (Source: Fidonet tech documentation I got back while I was still working on the D*mned H*ck, aka UNaXcess.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery (human), allbery@NCoast.ORG (Inet), BALLBERY (MCI Mail) ALLBERY (Delphi), uunet!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery (UUCP), B.ALLBERY (GEnie) BrandonA (A-Online) ("...and a partridge in a pear tree!" ;-)