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NOTE: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32).
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Alexander Koryagin:

AK> There are a lot of people with small narrow displays and
AK> long lines allow them read paragraphs correctly.
AK> Paragraphs with hard-wraps look badly in that case.

Following BBSes, FidoNet software assumed the user had at
least the standard ISO screen, that is 80x24 characters.
All modern videocards support that textmode, and all modern
displays have good-enough resolution to display an
80-character line of text.

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