erc@pobox.com (Ed Carp) wrote on 10.04.00 in <200004101658.LAA22655@khijol.org>:
> Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu) writes:
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Ed Carp wrote:
> >
> > > > So, we end up with all white space except newline ignored, but we
> > > > do have the line continuation character, which some people probably
> > > > find annoying. At least it doesn't have to be in column 72.
> > >
> > > The problem with this sort of mismash is that you spend more time
> > > writing a parser for the data than it's worth. But I guess people in
> > > this industry have forgotten KISS a long time ago. If I have to spend
> > > days writing a parser for ASCII data, my clients will hit the roof - and
> > > rightfully so.
> >
> > Erm... You know, column 150-odd is also not a good idea...
>
> What kind of mail UA are you using to read email? Almost every mail UA that
> I know of automatically wraps lines of text for you.
The obvious answer here is, as you say yourself,
> That's not the point. The point is, it's not the right thing to do.
In fact, there's no doubt at all that it's just plain wrong. Text/plain is
*not* designed to be reformatted. Period.
Whatever you're using is seriously broken.
MfG Kai
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