mailing list etiquette, again [was Marketing (was Re: Ubuntu's success)]

[Shawn McMahon]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:31:03PM +0200, Rolf Kutz said:
> 
> 80 columns is a bit wide, newspapers seem to use
> 30 to 40 (proportional width font).

RFC 1855 specifies 65 characters for email.  This makes it hard to do
four-line sigs, however, which is why I do 72.  Although I wonder if
the "--" counts as a line.

http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html


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