Hi Matthias,
On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009 19:05:02 Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Would you go to a job interview in your sweatpants? Would you sent your CV with handwritten corrections? If you answer those questions with no, you might also want to write professional e-mails. The Free Software community is a tough environment when it comes to e-mail usage. This short guide tries to help you that the community perceive you as a professional communicator.
I think that this is a great idea and agree with (almost all of) your points.
- *Line break of e-mails* Should be around 72 characters. Nobody will kill you if it is 70 or 74 or even 76. But a lot of people will get angry if you do not have a line break at all.
Can I ask what the reason behind this is?
I really don't like static word wrapping, as much as I don't like static width web pages. I read emails on a variety of devices and window sizes, and the presumption that ~72 characters is appropriate for wherever I'm reading it seems rather arbitrary.
A good client should have dynamic word wrapping IMO.
Cheers,
Pete.