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In article <ZOP1D9Fxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
writes:
>My own experience
>with message systems like Fido and Opus and TBBS that do smart wrapping is
>that it's more of a pain than it's worth. These days everyone's got 80
>column terminals, even on 8-bitters, so perhaps it's time to quit catering
>to old hardware on *both* sides.

Having experienced trying to use various BBSs and Unix systems with
some nonstandard (read: old) hardware, I'd hate to put anyone out of 
business who hasn't got the bucks to upgrade.
 
But I have to agree with Peter that the wordwrap on systems is a pain 
in the neck when one is used to having a choice.  I would like to be
able to append a .signature and have it stay formatted the way I had
it in the first place.  I've tried to figure out a way to fox those
systems into leaving it alone, but a space at the beginning of the
line doesn't always work.  And I am aware that since what I want left 
alone is 80-column text, those with 40-column machines will get a
strange result.

I suppose that since one of the beauties of computer communication is 
the ability of incompatible machines to talk to each other (which to
me is a miracle in itself), it's a good idea to cultivate tolerance
for small annoyances.  Provided that, to you, they ARE small ones.

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