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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
>> Gnus could use long header lines instead of wrapping them, couldn't
>> it?  Or would that cause problems with other badly-written things?
>
> It would violate RFC 2822:
>
> ,----
> |    There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
> |    characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
> |    998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
> |    the CRLF.
> `----

FWIW: I've even noticed that some 80<lines<998 cause (some versions
of?) Eudora to screw up it's header parsing....

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