[LoupSolitaire]

Once webkit 2 released, they may add a feature that split lines at 80 characters in their MUA :)

[briansmith]

Or, the mailing list archive software could just render it reasonably like good MUAs do.

[sjs]

s/Or/And/

emit strictly, accept liberally. then we'd have 2 lines of defence.

[chbarts]

Given that email doesn't have markup, this opens up the possibility that formatted text will be ruined by the MUA.

[nailer]

80 characters wouldn't make sense: most people view text in variable width fonts, which are generally considered easy to read.

A better idea would be to contain the text in something.