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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN