On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:00:30PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > Top quoting is ugly & evil, but there's absolutely nothing in RFC2822 says > you can't do it. Or even that you shouldn't do it. As far as I can see, > there isn't even a suggestion that _any_ kind of formatting of _any_ is > possible within a body section.
As a clarification, RFC2822 doesn't specify anything about the body of a message except that CR and LF must never appear alone and only as a CRLF combination, and that lines must be limited to 998 characters and should be limited to 78 characters. 2822 is about technical message formats (mostly headers), not netiquette. However, RFC 1855 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html) does talk about it since it is the "Netiquette Guidelines" RFC ... ;) "If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the entire original!" -- Randomly Generated Tagline: This tagline taunts the omish because they'll never know. _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
