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.
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