My Green Earth Day Suggestion

[Marc Lanctot]

On 23/04/09 09:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:29:13PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>>
>> | From: Marc Lanctot<lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
>> | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre)
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>> | To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>> | Subject: Re: [TLUG]: My Green Earth Day Suggestion
>> | References:<597510.46271.qm-ocD5SZSfVax+W+z1sZEpBPu2YVrzzGjVVpNB7YpNyf8 at public.gmane.org>
>> | In-Reply-To:<597510.46271.qm-ocD5SZSfVax+W+z1sZEpBPu2YVrzzGjVVpNB7YpNyf8 at public.gmane.org>
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>> Interestingly, Marc, your text shows as wider than 80 columns in my
>> MUA (Alpine -- pure text).  But if I ask to see it raw, your lines are
>> appropriately short.  I think that the key is format=flowed in the
>> Content-Type header.
>>
>> Not a complaint, just an observation.  It looked like you were a
>> hypocrite, so that is why I investigated :-)

How many columns do my message display at? Are they longer than everyone 
else's or just greater than 80? Specifically, do other messages (without 
format=flowed) show at less than 80? Is it one paragraph per line?

According to [1] the format=flowed gets put in there to give hints to 
the MUA on the other end about how to format/view the quoted text. Maybe 
Alpine makes wider than 80 char lines in this case. I guess it's a 
setting in Alpine?

Does anybody know if this format=flowed thing is a standard written 
about in an RFC somewhere? Should I turn it off?

> Well in mutt, Marc's messages are very nice, and I haven't seen a line
> over 80 characters so far.

Somehow I feel flattered. Is that wrong? :-p

> I have never seen format=flowed in the headers before, although I never
> looked for it either.
>

[1] http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html

Marc

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