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Re: BOF: Format-Flowed and Non-Western Charsets

2002-03-20 15:10:58

At 2:35 PM -0600 3/20/02, Eric Fischer wrote:

 Please do not deprecate format=flowed or introduce a new format option.
 There will be no hope of convincing software authors to follow the
 standards if the standards keep changing.

I think it would be bad to introduce a new format=foo and not deprecate format-flowed. Yes, there are deployed implementations of f=f, but there aren't too many, and I think the software that supports it will support a new f=x. The intent of Proposed Standard is to get operational experience, and if necessary modify the specifications based on what we see from early implementations.