Re: Folding of long lines in message bodies

In message <200506071218(_dot_)13750(_dot_)blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com>, Bruce Lilly 
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes
> On Tue June 7 2005 03:37, Ian Bell wrote:
text/paragraph was (briefly) proposed as a very simple way for programs 
that currently send paragraphs as single lines in text/plain to be fixed 
so that they can continue to send long lines but without breaking any 
RFC.
However, most text/plain messages containing paragraphs sent as single 
lines that I receive seem to be sent from Outlook and Outlook Express...
> > At the time that 2646 was written, Outlook and Outlook Express both
> > treated "text/unknown" as attachments (they may or may not still do
> > that).
> it is generally
> more appropriate to urge the vendor to fix the problem
... but because of those clients' broken behaviour with respect to 
text/unknown, the vendor would have been unable to make use of 
text/paragraph to fix their problem without breaking their installed 
base.
Thus text/paragraph could not achieve its aim - at least as far as 
Outlook/OE were concerned.
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Ian Bell                                                 T U R N P I K E

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