Re: disable "You have lines longer than 79 characters. Really post? (y or n) y"

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Christian Barthel wrote:

>> OK, but what is the problem to begin with?
>
> Many mailinglists and newsgroups have rules
> that state that lines shouldn't be longer
> than 80 chars or even smaller. The OpenBSD
> mailinglist rule for example, looks like [1]:
>
> | Plain text, 72 characters per line Many
> | subscribers and developers read their mail on
> | text-based mailers like mail(1), emacs or
> | mutt, and they often find HTML-formatted
> | messages (or lines that stretch beyond 72
> | characters) unreadable.
>
> The EmacsWiki [2] states something similar
> and for written sentences, there is some
> argumentation why it's a useful line length.

HTML-formatted messages I don't like, but you
can get away with them like this - I think!
I don't remember what exactly do what
anymore :$

;;; HTML and NON-ASCII
(setq gnus-inhibit-images t)
(setq gnus-inhibit-mime-unbuttonizing nil)
(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)

The second-last line and the last seems to
contradict each other... :)

As for the line length, I think that is some
relic from time passed. I might be wrong tho?

Anyway when I see a mail with to long lines to
the point that it disturbs me, I do
`gnus-article-fill-cited-article'. This ruins
pretty code and ASCII art, so sometimes I have
to go back and forth. For plain text tho it
works well in my experience.

Just some random thoughts :)

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