Re: Folding of long lines in message bodies

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

In message <[email protected]>, Bruce Lilly 
<[email protected]> writes

>My complaints with 3676 and its predecessor are that it
[]
>is based on silly assertions, e.g.
>sect. 3.3 "programs treat unknown subtypes of TEXT as an attachment" vs.

Full quote

    A proposal to define a new media type to explicitly represent the
    paragraph form

(that proposal was text/paragraph)

    suffered from a lack of interoperability with currently deployed
    software. Some programs treat unknown subtypes of TEXT as an
    attachment.

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).

>Given the bogosity of the "treat [...] as an attachment" claim,

I see no "bogosity". text/paragraph foundered on the (broken) treatment 
of text/unknown by some very common clients.

(Perhaps "Some programs treated unknown..." would have been slightly 
better though.)

> precisely why couldn't this markup format have been handled as another 
>subtype (e.g. text/flowed)?

see above

- -- 
Ian Bell                                                 T U R N P I K E

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP SDK 3.5.0

iQA/AwUBQqVO1b3aNYn/fmK7EQJ4WQCg/iPCC5M7b/ov19hmZkYoL3ioMXIAn3tt
cQ5Aqv64KgqWLQT3TZCvpAMk
=Lxds
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----