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[Garry Stahl]

David Favro wrote:
> I didn't see the original post that prompted this comment, but, I must
> say that while I have usually complied with this "standard practice" for
> decades, I have always thought that it was misconceived.  The insertion
> of spurious end-of-line characters in text/plain content-types  makes it
> impossible (difficult, anyhow) to determine the difference between
> "hard" (semantically significant) and "soft" (visual formatting)
> line-breaks.  This makes it very difficult for MUAs to properly rewrap
> lines when window widths change, or when text gets quoted for replies. 

This is very much true.  The hard line break is a thing of the past.  It
is up to the receiver to wrap the lines as they see fit.  Indeed
Thunderbird asks me where to wrap the line, my setting is 72
characters.  This message has only one hard carriage return in it (save
my sig).  That is how it should be.

Hard carriage returns screw up formatting and should not be used except
at the end of paragraphs.

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