> Before you go thwacking messages with long lines, you should read
> <http://www.imc.org/draft-gellens-format>. I believe that this has (or is
> about to be) an IETF standard. In essence, it says that long lines are not
> only acceptable, but (when labelled) a Good Thing.
But it also says that they should be sent folded at 79 characters or less and
rewrapped for display. I just read it, it's actually a nice hack to permit
fancy MUAs to make the text look nice while having it still look reasonable
with simple MUAs that just dump the text to an xterm.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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