On 2/21/2013 7:00 PM, unruh wrote: > Note that rmc 5322 is 2008. Many of the news readers are older than > that.
What's your point? Prior to 2008, RFC822 (1982) applied, which places no restrictions on line length. Or, if you prefer, RFC2046 (MIME, from 1996), which also makes no restrictions.
Failure to display long lines in a useful manner is a problem at the receiving end. The only reason MUAs "should" send <78 character lines is to try to accommodate defective recipients (how many people still use an 80x24 VT-100?). There's no requirement to do so, and complaining they're somehow wrong when they don't is either ignorant or disingenuous.
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