22 Jun
2010
22 Jun
'10
11:51 a.m.
Was RFC 3676 pushed through by MICROS~1's equating
of an email message with a WEIRD document?
RFC 3676 is less than ten years old (Feb 2004?).
Should this list conform to RFC 2646 (1999?), instead?
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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).
. . . but if it is more than 72, then the FORTRAN card
sequential numbering doesn't have space. I remember
several EAM machines that were configured (plug-board)
to ignore anything past 72
ALSO, since people often don't trim the replies to the
replies to the replies, it's nice to leave some room for
when the chevrons get inserted.
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.
"Soft line breaks" are fine for text that will be reformatted
in an editor, etc. But they are a nuisance when they get
quoted.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com