At 15:54 1999-12-25 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:49:26 PM, Frank wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, they are not since, as this message should show, long lines are quoted
> as is, not wrapped, as they should be. It means by using long lines in text
> you are forcing the people to rewrap everything every time. That is
> considered rude.
FYI, here's what long lines look line when you respond to them in another mailer.
> 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.
It's really the *display* issue in The Bat. No one is forced to re-wrap ... only
users of The Bat need to re-wrap.
-FF
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