On 14/10/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@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That RFC is extremely outdated.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).