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Article #411Body line length
From: Kirk Kelley
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 1984 20:42
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 1984 20:42
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Our message converter to RFC 822 folds everything in the body at 80 columns as a default (our paragraphs normally have no CRLFs in them). We use 80 columns instead of something shorter because our customers send tables formatted for 80 characters. We would prefer not placing ANY line breaks in the paragraphs of the body. [We would also prefer not getting ANY line breaks in paragrahs FROM the Internet, but thats another story.] This would mean we would send some "lines" in the body thousands of characters long. Are people going to suffer more from this as the default or from forcing line breaks at 80 or 72 or 60 or ???? Assuming SMTP knows how to deal with long lines, will mailers and mail readers break, or is this just a display aesthetics problem? We aim to please. -- kirk
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