On 2010-01-24, at 01:11 , Tim Gray wrote:
> 
> On Sun 24, Jan'10 at 12:34 AM -0200, Caio Chassot wrote:
>> How about de-wrapping incoming wrapped mail? Is it even consistently 
>> possible, or are wrap breaks indistinguishable from real breaks when the 
>> real break occurs near column 80?
> 
> format=flowed does essentially this.  If a client does it properly (and says 
> it's doing it in the headers) then  what happens is the text is hard wrapped 
> at 80 spaces at the time of sending BUT a space is appended to the end of 
> each line where wrapping is supposed to occur.  So clients that can't 
> interpret f=f just see hard wrapped text.  Clients which understand it can 
> string together the lines that make a paragraph and reformat it.

Oh I didn't know about this. I guess I thought it was just magic and unicorns?

(Incidentally, this is how I would prefer markdown to work; hear pres?)
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