(your mailer is sending out paragraphs as one very
long line, by the way)
Actually, it doesn't. Your mailer doesn't implement RFC 3676 et. al. properly
regarding the use of "soft" CRLF entries in the text/plain MIME format. The raw
message is, in fact, within spec (I'm assuming the list server doesn't munge it).
Welcome to the Internet, where standards move and not every display is a fixed-width
80-column screen.
I will reply to the rest of your message later, I have to run out now,
but this part...Argh! I will have to look into this when I get back. I
was unaware of RFC3676, thank you for the pointer!
Actually, I dispute the analysis. While the long line is technically within
spec, I point to section 4.2, which says,
When generating Format=Flowed text, lines SHOULD be 78 characters or
shorter, including any trailing white space and also including any
space added as part of stuffing (see Section 4.4).
I see no soft breaks in the line, unless the mailing list removed them
(soft break being SP CR LF). I left the line as my mailer saw it.
That said, the only mandate is that paragraph length be less than 998
characters, so the line is still technically compliant. It is, however,
still a very long line no matter how wide your terminal is.
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