At 10:29 AM 2/8/96, Terry Crowley wrote:
1. For maximum interoperability of text composed by the user in an
automatically wrapping text editor, send text/plain with short, hard-wrapped
lines. Wrap at something less that 80 characters (72 or 76 are good choices)
to allow for quoting on reply. If possible, send as 7-bit. If your data
contains 8-bit characters, you'll probably have to provide a user option about
whether they want to encode as QP in this case or "just send 8-bit".
2. If you want to send automatically wrapped text, use text/enriched, encoded
using QP.
If you're a vendor of MIME-capable software, support for text/enriched is a
must.
Bravo! Well said, Terry.
john noerenberg
<mailto:jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
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