Hi Jens,

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 04:03:26PM +0200, Jens Bauer wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2014 10:19:52 +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
> > 2. Whole paragraphs without line breaks (i.e. you end up with one line
> > per paragraph).
> 
> In fact, this is not a problem at the sender's side, it's really the
> receiver's problem.

I'm a strong believer that format=flowed is a misguided attempt at
solving a non-issue. If you take a look at the majority of emails from
highly professional and well-known developers on LKML you'll see they
don't use f=f and that's for a reason. It doesn't work well for just
about anything, but messes with e.g. discussing patches. When does it
really help? Very few people are using screens too narrow to display
those standard 72-chars lines, and very few prefer reading lines
longer than that anyway (apparently, it's hard to follow them), so the
most natural and the least harmful way is to wrap them right after
composing, just as all the traditional MUAs do.

> I really find it impressive, that this problem was not solved on the
> internet; it was on FidoNet (which was before the internet).

I do not remember using f=f on FidoNet, was using GoldEd back then,
but it was long time ago, so I might be wrong here.

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