> This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully resolve this > issue once and for all, and so, IMO, belongs on the list rather than in > private e-mail.
There is a phrase that goes: "Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send" Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance. However it is well understood to be a concise summary of a set of ideas which are generally accepted to be sound. If you are developing a system which implements a web-accessible mail archive where the archive contains messages from many disparate sources, then I would have thought that this would be one guideline you should be paying attention to. It is trivially simple to handle flowed-text messages as well as messages with additional inexplicable linebreaks. I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't hard. It hasn't caused any problems on the systems I set up, and has made things a lot easier by not having to waste time trying to browbeat users into doing things in a particular way. Bill -- William Blunn <bill at tao-group dot com> Tao, 62/63 Suttons Business Park, Earley, Reading, RG6 1AZ, UK Tel: +44 845 644 4458, Fax: +44 845 644 4459, Web: http://tao-group.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/