On 14/10/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
Lately, a lot of people have been posting messages
here that are
malformatted, with long lines stretching out indefinitely. You can
see this when you look at the web archive, where you sometimes have
to scroll a mile to the right to see all of the message. This is
contrary to the standards of RFC 2822, which recommend that there be
a hard break after lines of no more than 79 characters.
That RFC is extremely outdated. There is no need for manual linebreaks
these days - we have much wider monitors and functioning word wrap.
The web archive just need to have "style="white-space: pre-wrap;""
added to the pre tag (it's CSS 2.1, so I'm not sure how many browsers
support it - might need to use a few browser-specific methods).