In <2142326002012139.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>, on
02/28/2012
at 06:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>I learned long ago to insert line breaks where I want them -- it's
>the big key to the right of the home row.
Which makes things harder for thos using a narrower window to read
them.
>F=F is an abominable compromise.
But better than alternating long and short lines.
>Q-P is no better.
Much as I hate QP, it has a useful role.
>Both are attempts at stealth markup
No; QP is a way to sneak non-ASCII data into an ASCII protocol without
breaking things.
>structured text that appears plain
FSVO structured text.
>The games they play are never quite transparent.
No protocol is transparent to software that doesn't support it. Half a
decade is long enough for the authors of e-mail software to start
supporting MIME.
>They corrupt plain text that I paste in.
Then you're running broken software.
>MS Exchange
is broken.
>I believe F=F uses <SPACE><NEWLINE> as a continuation
>indicator. Woe betide anyone who allows a space to occur before
>a hard line break.
That can only happen with broken software. From RFC 3676
A generating agent SHOULD:
...
o Trim spaces before user-inserted hard line breaks.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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