On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:58:48 PST, Dave Crocker said:
Text/plain is assumed to be (fully) formatted by the sender, hence the term
"lines".
It is assumed that one line from the sender will be displayed as one line.
While it is legal for a receiver to play formatting games with the text, we
have all seen how difficult (or impossible) this can often is to make pretty.
Text/paragraph says that the sender is using CRLF very differently from
text/plain and expects the receiver to perform whatever wrapping procedures
are necessary for smooth presentation.
Until of course some bozo wants to mix long-line paragraphs with
ascii art, because *his* MUA 'looks right when he does it".... ;)
I sense a slippery slope here. Perhaps pushing text/html capable
MUA is the REAL right answer here?
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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