On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 18:39:02 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> I consider RFC 3676 an abomination, totally unsuitable for posting code >> samples. > >Why? Do you know of any case where a properly behaving mail client mangles >code properly formatted with format=flowed? > "properly formatted" is a big order. Before the infestation of format=flowed an author was able to copy-and-paste a code snippet into a message and the recipient could copy-and-paste and run it. Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit, now well supported removed one incentive to encode. RFC 822 mandated a 1000-character limit on line length, ample for coding. The feckless innovation of an 80-character limit impelled a new motive for encoding. In the message to which you're replying I experimented with UTF-8 text; long lines; 8bit. A surfeit of caution and timid adherence to Postel's rule has made things harder.
Email shouldn't pretend to be a publishing tool. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
