Why wrap @ 80?

[William Park]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:00:09PM -0400, gabriel wrote:
> sorry to rain on everyone's history less (as interesting as it is... i
> had no idea this issue went so far back)  i have to ask.  when then
> are we going to abandon this very, very old obsolete standard?  i
> understand that there's still a great many users on this list and
> elsewhere using mutt and pine etc.  but why don't those programs
> compensate for 80+ character lines?  wouldn't this help the rest of us
> get out of this nearly century-old restriction?

Because human eyes have not changed.  

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