From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:37:26 +0100, Water Fountain wrote:   
      
   > Cellphone user  writes:   
   >   
   >> anon@urmom.com posted:   
   >>   
   >> I've always used some the '90s the 80 monospace character Width, and   
   >> I've always read newsgroups that way.   
   >>   
   >> I'm not sure where you guys are taking the 76 to 72 characters thing?   
   >   
   > Am on Emacs using Gnus, and on it I get a warning that the post is   
   > longer than 79 characters if it goes beyond that. It makes sense on a 80   
   > characters limit for the extra quote character.   
   > The 76 or 72 numbers are news to me.   
      
   Pan does the same. By default it wraps the text well but that is a problem   
   with longer URLs. If I turn off wrapping to preserve the URL it whines.   
      
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