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    SubjectRe: "Virtual" Interrupts -- Need help please
    On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
    > Am 09.09.2013 13:02, schrieb Mark Brown:

    > >makes your mail very hard to read. It looks like your mailer has also
    > >reflowed Daniel's mail.

    > That's just wrong. Mail readers should wrap lines, not senders. And
    > readers can do this since some decades.

    There's a specific way for senders to request that if it's desired, set
    format=flowed in the MIME type to tell the recipient that the formatting
    isn't important.

    > The reason is obvious: No sender knows the line width the receiver
    > can display. So, for example, if the sender hard breaks lines every
    > 80 chars, a reader with a device which just displays 60 characters
    > at max. will see every second line with at most 20 characters. I
    > assume you can guess how such does look like. Furthermore there are
    > still a lot of people which do like to read mails with line length
    > as long their display is possible to show, and hard breaking lines
    > on the receiver side does make such impossible.

    > So the correct behaviour is to not hard break lines on the sender
    > side and leave that to the reader on the receiving side, as only the
    > receiving side knows the line width.

    This doesn't work well with lots of content (like patches) commonly
    handled in technical contexts - the line breaks actually mean something
    and it's hard fo the mail client to figure out what is going on unless
    someone tells it.
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