Re: [FAQ] ASCII Art - answers to frequently asked questions

On 20/04/2023 19:55, Viatrix wrote:
> On 2023-04-20T19:12:04+0100, Colin Randall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> hi ... i'm curious how you knew (could tell) it had 'flowed format' ?
>> or is it possible TB has provided this as an option in a recent
>> update ? i would've expected to have encountered this issue with
>> Mozilla tools previously
> 
> I could tell because my newsreader has an option to view the raw source
> of a message, and your messages from Thunderbird had the following
> Content-Type header:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> (note the "; format=flowed" at the end)
> 
> I think Thunderbird's used Format=Flowed as its default when sending
> for decades now, but it often goes unnoticed as Format=Flowed tries to
> be as unobtrusive as possible (however the "space-stuffing" was, in
> fact, intrusive here). I believe some mailing lists have had problems
> with Thunderbird due to its use of Format=Flowed too.
thanks ... reading up about it shows development from around 2005 or
earlier by Qualcomm Eudora for cell-phone usage due to tiny displays

not good for ascii-art

their response:

  Sometimes we do things with ASCII text that get munged up by reformatting,
  like using ^^^ under a word to emphasize it. f=f can undo that work.

  On the other hand, almost no one reads mail with the monospaced font
  necessary to understand that kind of ASCII markup – no one with
  an f=f-compatible mailer, anyway.


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