Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 00:51:25 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer |
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At 9:32 AM +0200 2001-05-03, Kai Henningsen wrote: >jlundell@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 26.04.01 in ><p05100303b70eadd613b0@[207.213.214.37]>: > >> At 10:31 PM -0600 2001-04-26, Richard Gooch wrote: >> >BTW: please fix your mailer to do linewrap at 72 characters. Your >> >lines are hundreds of characters long, and that's hard to read. >> >> Sorry for the inconvenience. There are a lot of reasons why I believe >> it's properly a display function to wrap long lines, and that an MUA >> has no business altering outgoing messages (one on-topic reason being >> that patches get screwed up by inserted newlines), but I grant that >> there are broken clients out there that can't or won't or don't wrap >> at display time. > >What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this stuff >should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping, so >irregardless of good or bad design it's just plain illegal. > >If you want to support wrapping with plain text, investigate >format=flowed.
Yes, I did that.
I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail clients do it. What's the relevant RFC?
>MfG Kai
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