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On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Tobiah <tshepard@rcsreg.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I gave up the 80 char line length long
> ago, having little feeling for some dolt on
> a Weiss terminal that for some reason needs to
> edit my code.

And yet, you did not give up an even more insane line length limit, in
e-mail.  The longest line in your original message is a measly 57
characters long.  The median line length is 46 characters.  Which is
pretty insane, and ultra-hard to read.  You can do more in e-mail.

> Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
> SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.

That's the standard, [RFC 5322][]; the exact same quote appeared back
in [RFC 2822][].  However, many places actually want you to use a bit
less; common values include 70 or 72.  But still, it is MUCH more
roomy and readable than the value you use.

Here are the line lengths in the original message:

[47, 45, 45, 46, 46, 47, 45, 5, 46, 43, 46, 47, 47, 49, 31, 57, 52,
 34, 42, 23]

[RFC 5322]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1
[RFC 2822]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-2.1.1

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