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Dan Wing <dwing(_at_)Cisco(_dot_)COM> writes:
Space-stuffing is done by the sender and undone by the receiver, thus
causes no formatting changes to the message body.
It should also be mentioned what happens if a sender does space-stuffing
and the receiver doesn't know to undo space-stuffing - which would be
typical for all MUAs that exist today which don't understand
Format=Flowed. Such text might best belong in the Failure Modes section
(which might be renamed "Interoperability Issues" perhaps). I don't have
any text to recommend for this, though.
I am in any case curious as to why space was chosen for the stuffing
character. I would have expected `\`, which is more usual in such
situations, and would make it immediately apparent to a user using an
unmodified reader that some special convention was being used.
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