[offtopic] Word wrapping

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:45:56PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Cool, thank you for the example :-)  I thought the MTA or at least the the
> mailing list would wrap mails at some limit. I've now set word-wrap to 9999
> characters (it seems not possible to turn it off completely in
> thunderbird). But when writing, I'm now getting one long line.

Thunderbird uses format=flowed, so it's wrapped nevertheless. Google to find
out how to turn it off if you really need to.

> What's common practice?

Usually 72 or 76 characters, TTBOMK -- but when posting tables or big query
plans, one should simply turn it off, as it kills readability.

> What's it on the pgsql mailing lists?

No idea. :-)

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