On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:29:21PM +1100, Wienand Ian wrote: >>Text in RFC822 compliant e-mail should be a maximum of 80 >>characters wide. > >You might like to re-read this; no where does it specify such a >limit. It is only by convention.
RFC2822 obsoletes RFC0822, and does say: Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. It's not entirely a matter of convention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
