Ardith Hinton:

>           I didn't see any line on my screen which ran over 72
> characters here, although my software can handle up to 80.

Ironically, this very paragrph of yours is written as a single
line 472 characters wrong... er, long :-)  Now that I made this
slip, it reminds of a Buddy Guy album titled "74 years young,"
which I did not care for, but his guitar work on Big Mama
Thornton's "Hound dog" is top notch! Yes, that was the original
"Hound dog" that Elvis Presley turned into a joke, posing with a
hound dog for the promotion poster. Here's my friend's take on it:

https://soundcloud.com/anton-shepelev/hound-dog-blues-version-cover

> I'm not at all concerned about lines which are shorter than
> what you intended because I think that makes them easier for less
> fluent speakers of English to interpret.  If the lines are longer
> than what you intended, or if other people's software omits words
> such as "not" when a line is quoted & requoted, I consider that
> to be a more serious issue.

Indeed. Considerate treatment of message text is one of the key
requirements in GNKSA -- Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval.

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