[WikiEN-l] Message formatting

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 15 Oct 2007 at 19:25:15 +0100, "Thomas Dalton" 
<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> That RFC is extremely outdated. There is no need for manual linebreaks
> these days - we have much wider monitors and functioning word wrap.
> The web archive just need to have "style="white-space: pre-wrap;""
> added to the pre tag (it's CSS 2.1, so I'm not sure how many browsers
> support it - might need to use a few browser-specific methods).

There *is* a newer standard "format=flowed", documented in RFC 2646, 
but the messages here aren't following it; that calls for proper 
linebreaks just as in the old standard, but a header that tells mail 
clients that it's OK to re-wrap paragraphs to a different length.


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