Re: Folding of long lines in message bodies

On Mon June 6 2005 16:53, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Bruce Lilly writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed. So in other words, nothing about this problem is related to 
> RFC3676. ISTR that Netscape Navigator 2.0 did the same thing with 
> text/plain.

"this problem" == extremely long lines == RFC 3676 section 3.1 "use
CRLF to represent paragraph breaks [...] Text which meets this
description is defined by this memo as "flowed" [...] software products
erroneously label this format as Text/Plain, resulting in much user
discomfort"

Unfortunately, 3676 and its predecessor label the format as text/plain.