tlug: Re: excessive white space

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

>>>>> Rex Walters writes:  (on 29 Oct 98)

> Extra (even excessive) white space is by far the easiest thing you can
> do to improve the legibility of your mail (or source code, for that
> matter) *without* chewing up bandwidth (blank lines only cost a byte).
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
One anal-retentive reader who shall remain unnamed had to go and remind
me that SMTP requires CRLF line termination, so each blank line costs
two bytes of _bandwidth_.  

It still only costs a byte of storage, though (as long as we're talking
unix/linux).  

So there.

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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