On 2019 Mar 22 21:18:32, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 ON> You system passed JAM-FTSKLUDGE:  COLS: 80 along the way... didn't see 
COLS
 ON> listed yet. Oh. Was in Fred's list though for this echo. On the subject of
 ON> COLS, one document I read says 72 chars, another 76 chars, as "right
 ON> edge"... is there a current ruling? (I run Dual 27" Wide Screens - so I
 ON> could go to something like 4000 in a readable font). ;-/

there is no ruling and developers years ago realized that terminals were 
getting wider... they worked on reflowing quotes so that they fit the local 
terminal viewing the post and did not reflect the originating terminal's 
size... this is where quoting was also altered so that one added more ">" to 
the quoted lines instead of adding more and more initials...

  eg:  ON>>>>
instead of
       ON> GW> ml> ON>

there are also methods used by some editors to indicate that a section is not 
to be reflowed... tables and charts... those placed a ""hard"" CR at the end of 
the table/chart lines instead of only at the end of the paragraph... this is 
why you see what is known as "chainsaw" quotes or posts at times...

)\/(ark

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
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