Re: tlug: Re: excessive white space

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Rex Walters writes:  (on 29 Oct 98)
> 
> > Extra (even excessive) white space is by far the easiest thing you can
> > do to improve the legibility of your mail (or source code, for that
> > matter) *without* chewing up bandwidth (blank lines only cost a byte).
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> One anal-retentive reader who shall remain unnamed had to go and remind
> me that SMTP requires CRLF line termination, so each blank line costs
> two bytes of _bandwidth_.  
> 
> It still only costs a byte of storage, though (as long as we're talking
> unix/linux).  

But, when someone replies to such a message, one has to go and delete all
50 of those lines.  I don't see the point of having 50 blank lines in your
signature, is all.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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