In <ilufzpsn3sz(_dot_)fsf(_at_)latte(_dot_)josefsson(_dot_)org> Simon Josefsson
<simon+ietf-822(_at_)josefsson(_dot_)org> writes:
"Charles Lindsey" <chl(_at_)clw(_dot_)cs(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> writes:
If the original message was not format flowed, then it Ought to
have
started out with a line length of 72 or thereabouts to allow
room for
quoting. So in a well-ordered thread the situation should not
arise, and
if it does, then things are no worse than they ar at present
with unflowed
messages.
Your message illustrates quite well that this isn't always true
(your first line is 82 characters long, now it is 84...).
Yes, it is the way nn construct its attribution lines :-( .
However, the way your system quoted my original message raises some
further problems. My system does not understnad format=flowed (and this
message is not flowed, so you can deduce exactly how it was displayed to
me). All the lines you quoted were then splt, by you, into two, which
produced even more bizarre effects when I quoted them back at you.
OTOH, even if my reader had understood flowed, I don't see how it could
have displayed those lines any better, or quoted them any better when
composing this message.
I think this is one aspect of the problem that you are trying to solve,
though I am not sure exactly how your proposal would fix it.
This is what my implemention does too, using the filling functions
in emacs, which often makes good guesses. But, and this triggered
my review of the implementation, it sometimes produces horrible
results.
Which is why maybe it needs to be under user control.
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