On 25 Apr 2011 at 20:41, quad wrote:
It is true, to quote RFC 2282:
"Each line of characters must be no more than 998 characters, and should be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF."
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, I think that this is part of the traditional internet email standard.
Apparently, these standards had to cope with Unix/C people who couldn't count past 255, so line lengths are _required_ to be broken up in (apparently) as odd a place as possible.
We must have a different reading of things: First, for a math list I'd think that we could agree that 998 != 255. Second, there's a difference between "required" and "should be". Fact is, long lines work fine [and you can use text-flowed if 1000 chars isn't long enough of a line for you. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--