Once you insert all the line breaks, the email clients can not reliably reconstruct the original paragraphs anymore.
Yes, the point of the convention is to make text fit on the 80 char terminal. Nowadays clients use extremely different viewer widths, thus it's an outdated recommendation, that should not be followed anymore.
Yes, the point of the convention is to make text fit on the 80 char terminal. Nowadays clients use extremely different viewer widths, thus it's an outdated recommendation, that should not be followed anymore.