From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Weird subject wrapping
Date: 08 Sep 2000 17:37:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafaediq4ia.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "08 Sep 2000 10:45:37 -0400"
On 08 Sep 2000, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes:
>> I think that MUAs are supposed to remove the leading whitespace
>> from continuation lines. Or are they supposed to replace that with
>> a single space? I'm not sure.
>
> RFC822 (3.1.1) says: "Unfolding is accomplished by regarding CRLF
> immediately followed by a LWSP-char as equivalent to the LWSP-char."
Ick! Having the following in a message header looks really awful:
Subject: this is a long
subject continued on the next line
I'd prefer something like
Subject: this is a long
subject continued on the next line
But I can't use that with the RFC :-|
Darn.
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-08 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-07 22:54 Hannu Koivisto
2000-09-08 9:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-09-08 14:45 ` Paul Jarc
2000-09-08 15:37 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2000-09-08 15:45 ` Paul Jarc
2000-09-08 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-09-08 16:31 ` Paul Jarc
2000-09-10 16:32 ` Hannu Koivisto
2000-09-10 22:41 ` Paul Jarc
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