On 25Jul2015 22:43, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 25, 2015 4:51 PM, "Ben Finney" <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> writes:
> So it was my fault by sending him a reply with >>> to the far left.
No, it was Google Mail's failt for messing with the content of the
message.
Specificly, by manking the text without leave(*).
What Internet standard is being violated by reflowing text content in
the message body?
RFC3676: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=3676
See also: http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html
There is a variant on plain old text/plain, namely the format= parameter.
(This message is using it.) If you set it to format=flowed then the user agent
is allowed to reflow te text to fit the display width. It also specifies a
tighter interpretation of the quoted-message indentation markers (i.e. the
">>>") allow for reflow of the quoted material as well.
I'm also skeptical that this was caused by Gmail, which I've never
seen do this and did not do this when I tried to repro it just now.
Also, unless I'm misinterpreting the headers of the message in
question, it appears to have been sent via Gmane, not Gmail.
Who knows if it was caused by GMail. Hard to tell at this point.
(*) However, it does look like something may have treated a plain text message
as plain text in format=flowed form.
Or perhaps some user agent has just gone rogue.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
in rec.moto, jsh wrote:
Dan Nitschke wrote:
> Ged Martin wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 May 1997 16:53:33 +0000, Dan Nitschke scribbled:
> > >(And you stay *out* of my dreams, you deviant little
> > >weirdo.)
> > Yeah, yeah, that's what you're saying in _public_....
> Feh. You know nothing of my dreams. I dream entirely in text (New Century
> Schoolbook bold oblique 14 point), and never in color. I once dreamed I
> was walking down a flowchart of my own code, and a waterfall of semicolons
> was chasing me. (I hid behind a global variable until they went by.)
You write code in a proportional serif? No wonder you got extra
semicolons falling all over the place.
No, I *dream* about writing code in a proportional serif font.
It's much more exciting than my real life.
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