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Comment	> Rather unnecessarily combative response there Michael, if I may say > so. I'll admit (and duly apologise for) my knowledge of email being > somewhat superficial. I've used it for a bit more than 15 years, but > I haven't been as deeply involved in its implementation as I > currently necessarily find myself. That obviously makes me at times > reliant on my observations of how things are usually done, which I > call conventions (nobody mentioned standards). > > I have been berated for my lines of text being too long, and I've > seen it happen to others. Text content is not routinely flowed in > this bold new world: Did you ever see a README, or a code file, that > didn't restrict line-width to somewhere around 80char? Look at your > own reply right here, on the Horde platform: I see plenty of inserted > line-breaks. More to the point, why is the Imp compose window > chosen to be the width it is? > > If you prefer, let's treat it purely as an ergonomic, or usability > matter. I'll assert that the basis for the compose window's width is > that most people find it harder to read text whose lines are too > long. The limit of personal comfort/acuity is different for everyone, > but there are popular conventions across various collaborative > platforms that peg it at 80char, 78char, sometimes even 60char. I've > always considered it good general netiquette to conform to the 80char > convention, and those of us who like to read what we write before > hitting Send (perhaps this is also a relic of years ago?) find the > width of horde's window very sensible for this reason. > > I'm very appreciative of the work you do on Horde, and the personal > help you've given me as I'm sure you're very busy with it. I > certainly have no pretensions of this ticket being of anything other > than very low priority; but there's no need to jump down people's > throats.
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