On 15 Oct 2007 at 12:50:37 -0500, "Charlotte Webb"
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/14/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name>
wrote:
Lately, a lot of people have been posting
messages here that are
malformatted, with long lines stretching out indefinitely. You can
see this when you look at the web archive, where you sometimes have
to scroll a mile to the right to see all of the message. This is
contrary to the standards of RFC 2822, which recommend that there be
a hard break after lines of no more than 79 characters.
This is probably something in their mail client that they have no idea
how to control. I know I don't. Maybe you count letters and add
linebreaks but I think most of us just type a bunch of run-on
sentences which wrap themselves without any difficulty.
A part of my original message that you snipped was a link to a
section of my site that gives information on how to configure various
mail programs to follow the standards better.
I also have a tool for checking the format of a message to see how
well it follows the standards: