Hi, Denis! Recently you asked about the following in netmail to Ardith Hinton:

Omigosh!

An informal expression of surprise... also spelled "Oh, my gosh!"

... [wry grin].

A crooked smile, suggesting the preceding remark is ironic. When I said "That does seem rather excessive" I was probably showing my ex-Brit roots by using what many people would consider to be an understatement... [chuckle].

Not being a techie,

- technical person?

Yes. Informally, a techie is a person skilled in technical matters ... most often pertaining to computers.

This gal seemed to enjoy pushing limits.... :-Q

A gal (slang, esp. North American) is a girl or woman.

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

I interpreted this comment as a joke. There's an American magazine called GOOD HOUSEKEEPING which reports on testing of common household items by the Good Housekeeping Institute, and manufacturers who have earned their "Seal of Approval" for any such item generally display it on the product.

"Canadian Post" or which mark?

A postmark is a bit of ink the post office adds to the surface of a stamp to indicate it has been used & thus prevent others from reusing it. :-)
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Ardith Hinton:

BTW... certain Fidonetters who are blind or visually
impaired tend to use software which limits them to 40
lines. I can cope with that because I read newspapers &
magazines, and I do want to hear what they have to say.
:-)

We used 40 characters per line in the English translation of
Star Heritage:

https://freeshell.de//~antonius/img_host/star_heritage/ingame-01-3x.png
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Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:

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

I interpreted this comment as a joke.

Now, I meant it in earnest:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160417105503/http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt

There's an American magazine called GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
which reports on testing of common household items by
the Good Housekeeping Institute, and manufacturers who
have earned their "Seal of Approval" for any such item
generally display it on the product.

Whence the inspiration for GNKSA.
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Alan Ianson:

This editor I am using now (GoldED) will save paragraphs
as one long line.

I see a lot of posts written via GoldED and formatted to a
limited line width, usually the standard 72 charactes. It
must be configurable in the settings.

I prefer when editors use one long line for a paragraph.
Then readers can wrap those lines as appropriate for the
terminal size being used by the reader instead of
wrapping as the writer sees it since they could be
different.

This is hightly non-standard, for readers are not required
to warp long lines. In Usenet, Fidonet, and e-mail, this is
the responsiblity of the sender. Here is the relevant
excerpt from GNKSA, but you shall find statements to similar
effect in RFC and other standards and guidelines:

14) Try to respect the 80-character line-length
conventions

Any line breaks shown to the user while she is editing
her article SHOULD still be present when the article is
actually posted to the Net. The software SHOULD NOT show
the user four 75-character lines while actually posting a
single 300-character line. Nor should it show the user a
series of 100-character lines while actually posting
alternating lines of 80 and 20 characters each.

It's also a good idea to warn the user if the article she
is about to post contains non-header lines longer than 80
characters. The software SHOULD NOT prevent the posting,
but SHOULD ask whether the user wants to re-edit or post
anyway.

A standard-conforing way to have a flexible line width is
Format=Flawed :

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2646#section-4.1
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On 2022 Jan 09 20:58:18, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

This editor I am using now (GoldED) will save paragraphs
as one long line.

I see a lot of posts written via GoldED and formatted to a
limited line width, usually the standard 72 charactes. It
must be configurable in the settings.

that may be a function of the display code in whatever BBS, terminal, or mail reader one is using... these days line lengths are generally not forced except in cases of charts and tables but it depends on the software used to create the message as well as the software in use at the other end...

quotes, like mine above, are a different but similar matter...

)\/(ark

"The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my majesty, ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a shiny thing!"
... RADIO SHACK - You've got questions! We've got blank looks!!!
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Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

We used 40 characters per line in the English translation
of Star Heritage:

IOW you were one of the translators?

Makes sense to me... particularly if you can't be sure who's in the audience. I understand this is a video game & I reckon other folks might want to play it on whatever device(s) they have available. It seems you are making allowances for their hardware/software & for those who don't read books. :-))




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