On 16 November 2015 at 17:43, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:32:05PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: >> On 16 November 2015 at 17:22, Russell King - ARM Linux >> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Please sensibly wrap your messages. Your lines are longer than 80 >> > characters which makes it exceedingly difficult for some people to reply >> > to your very very very very very very very very very very very very >> > very very very very very very very very very very very very very very >> > very very very very very very very very very very very very very very >> > very very very very very very very very very very very very very very >> > very very very very very very very very very very very very very very >> > very very very very very very long lines without first reformatting >> > them manually - and why should they bother to reply if they have that >> > kind of additional work? Thanks. >> >> His lines are wrapped mostly at 80, but sometimes at 86, characters. >> You should probably look into fixing your MUA. > > No. > > Standard net etiquette is that email should be wrapped around 72 > characters to give space for reply indentation to remain readable > on an 80 column screen. Most of my email replies are written on an > 80 column screen. Oh, I just thought there was a greater reason for your 660-character tantrum than someone overshooting by 14 characters on a couple of lines. Then again, having read the rest of the pointlessly hostile mail, it's entirely in keeping with the rest. Shame that your needless aggression obscures a fairly valid point. Have a lovely even ing . _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
