In <200506061521(_dot_)05374(_dot_)blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
On Mon May 30 2005 14:30, Charles Lindsey wrote:
And if implemented correctly, it should not result
in extremely long lines
And yet it does. See
http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/mail-archive/msg01961.html
for example.
There is no way of telling (because full headers are not available)
whether that messange was sent with format=flowed, or not.
The distinguishing characteristic of such messages (absent
from Jacob's original in this thread) is that an entire
paragraph of text is contained in a single message line as
described in section 3.1 of RFC 3676.
But if it _was_ sent with format=flowed, then the agent which sent it has
breached a SHOULD in RFC 3676 by not splitting after 78 characters,
Breaching that SHOULD is not the end of the world, but it makes that agent
thoroughly broken IMO.
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