At 15:28 1999-12-25 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:17:58 PM, Frank wrote:
> > So RFC 822 makes no restrictions on the lengths of text lines in the *body*
> > of an E-mail message. RFC 822 *does* make restrictions on the length of
> > lines in E-mail *headers*, but that is not the issue we're discussing.
>
> Gah, wrap your lines, just don't argue about it. Geez. I can't believe
> you're trying to defend Eudora, breaker of RFCs extraordinaire.
I'm not trying to defend Eudora. See below.
> > RFC 822 makes no restrictions like you describe above. Lines of a *message
> > body* can be arbitrarily long according to RFC 822. Can you point me to such
> > restrictions in RFC 822?
>
> > Over to you ...
>
> Fine, RFC821, Page 43, section 4.5.3.
>
>
> text line
>
> The maximum total length of a text line including the
> <CRLF> is 1000 characters (but not counting the leading
> dot duplicated for transparency).
True. But I was mainly interested in "logical" lines ... which can be arbitrarily
long, right? That's the way I read RFC 2045. I only referenced RFC 822 because
Alexander said that long lines violated RFC 822. In one of my prior messages, I
suggested that the focus is really RFC 2045.
> Common convention is to wrap your lines, just do it. Jeez.
Wrapping lines is *one* convention and not the only one. I used to do that, but I
found that many messages got messed up when people copied and pasted my words.
Really, for almost 20 years I did what you describe. I've come around to thinking
that the paragraph separator is good for *text* (and people seem to have fewer
copy/paste problems, too, ... something to think about with these long lines).
Natually, if I'm sending a snippet of code to some one I'll send it as is (usually,
margins are less then 80 columns). The only time the very-long-lines convention is a
problem is during *display* ... which is why one of my original points claimed this
was a *display* issue for The Bat, not an RFC issue. Alexander is the one who started
the claim that this was all an RFC issue ... I just think it's a display preference
... and I hope The Bat will include this type of preference in future releases.
Both conventions are useful. I happen to use very-long-lines for text, and properly
wrapped lines for code.
-FF
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