Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!diku!ambush!kimcm From: kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.misc Subject: Re: Re: Messages with >80-character lines Message-ID: <540@ambush.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 09:57:28 EST Article-I.D.: ambush.540 Posted: Fri Oct 30 09:57:28 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 00:24:27 EST References: <767@quacky.UUCP> <696@unisoft.UUCP> <37e7ff5a.b8ab@apollo.uucp>, <1453@haddock.ISC.COM> <8831@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark) Lines: 19 Xref: mnetor news.software.b:917 news.admin:1306 news.misc:1085 In article <8831@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >However, it is probably easier (if that is the word) and less painful to >convince people to adhere to standards in such things than to convince them >to shift to a new and *incompatible* standard. The former can be at least >partly automated, by the way. Which standard????? The standards for writing style are dependent upon several things: 1) Whom are you writing to (Newspaper, Tech. Journal, Letter to Mom, etc.) 2) Where do you come from (different countries have different style standards). etc. etc. Kim Chr. Madsen.