At 2:18 AM -0700 8/18/98, Ian Bell wrote:
Paragraph-oriented text is restricted at the moment to non-compliant
MUAs abusing text/plain. As soon as there is a standard way of labelling
paragraph text, it will probably become much more common. Promotion of
format=flowed to format=fixed will then lead to broken display/reply
as in:
: ian: randy> } This paragraph has been quoted five times using
quoting conventions often seen. How will you display it correctly,
let alone reply and quote correctly: especially if the user wants to
split the paragraph in two?
Format=flowed quoted text must be quoted using the canonical quote
indicator, so the problem is better. Promotion of Format=fixed to
Format=flowed can be tricky, but is no worse than the status quo, and
if agents start generating Format=flowed will be less common.