Line Lengths (when to wrap and when not to) . . . . . . (was Re: Quoting for Thread Breaking Digest Replies) [tlug]

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Ken wrote: 

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It seems that your email program is wrapping long lines. 

When quoting technical stuff, like the headers, this is undesirable. 
>From http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats

   However, do not wrap data (such as log file dumps or session 
   transcripts) at any fixed column width. Data should be 
   included as-is, so respondents can have confidence that 
   they are seeing what you saw.

> I did find that in non-plain text messages I get an option for View
> Source
> if I open the message, then right click in the body of the message.  It
> does

For the stuff that you write, it's up to you wrap at good places. 
Generally, I just disable automatic line-wrapping and manually 
keep most lines to about 65 characters long each.