Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/01/12:25:07
Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> By the way, it is generally polite internet practise to constrain the
> stuff you type to 80-character lines. Either that, or your newsreader
> wordwrap doesn't properly work, or your unixy linefeeds-only or
> Macintoshy
> carriage-returns-only stuff isn't properly translated for DOS somewhere
> in
> all the routers and servers and stuff it went through, starting at your
> newsreader and ending at my comm software...
Ahem. Mail is delivered between machines with "Unixy linefeeds." It's
only the enduser machines that translate them to platform-specific
end-of-line sequences.
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