From: eikelan@gmx.net   
      
   Jim Candela wrote:   
   >  On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 10:20:46 AM UTC-5, Eike Lantzsch wrote:   
   > > Hi y'all!   
   > > Just for your information,   
   > > lines longer than 78 characters make it uncomfortable for me   
   > > to read otherwise very interesting posts, since I still use   
   > > a conventional news-reader like slrn on a terminal.   
   > > Panning is possible but as I said: uncomfortable.   
   > > That is why usenet etiquette mentions:   
   > >   
   > > RFC 1855                 Netiquette Guidelines              October 1995   
   > >   
   > >     - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line   
   > >       with a carriage return.   
   > >   
   > > This is even more restrictive than what I politely asked for, namely   
   > > 78chars. I'm no usenet-police, just a reader speaking in my behalf.   
   > >   
   > > I'm sorry to have ruffled a few feathers. As I said, your posts are   
   > > interesting and most welcome.   
   > >   
   > > Have a nice day and keep up the good work.   
   > > Eike ZP6CGE   
   >   
   >   
   >  Any chance you can redefine your line to a higher number of characters?   
   >   
   >  If you want to use a special editor or just pass special arguments to   
   >    it, set the variable ``editor_command'' in your .slrnrc, e.g.:   
   >   
   >            set editor_command "vim '+set tw=72' +%d '%s'"   
   >   
   >    starts vim with a textwidth of 72 columns and the cursor on the first   
   >    line of the message's body. For a more detailed discussion of this,   
   >    see the entry ``editor_command'' in the reference manual.   
   >   
   >  http://www.slrn.org/docs/FIRST_STEPS.txt   
   >   
   >  Jim   
   >  Wd5JKO   
   Thank you for the heads-up. I was looking for this but couldn't find it.   
   I definitely looked in the wrong places.   
   Kind regards, Eike   
      
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