On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:37:56PM +1100, John Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:29:21PM +1100, Wienand Ian wrote: > > > You might like to re-read this; no where does it specify such a > > limit. It is only by convention.
See section 2.1.1 of RFC 2822, which obsoletes RFC 822: There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. Further on in that section it states that user interfaces should be able to cope with at least 998 characters on a line. This is usual practice for RFCs; be strict in what you send, and lenient in what you receive. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
