[139560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top-posting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 11 23:40:12 2011
To: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:58:11 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:39:33 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:58:11 EDT, Bryan Fields said:
> The issue with outlook/exchange is there is no way to use another client with
> it. I cannot even force plain text to the internet, the server send it as
> quoted printable even if I strip all formatting.
If the entire body part is expressible in US-ASCII, then the case can be made
that using quoted-printable *anyhow* is a bug because it's using an
un-necessary encoding..
> The outlook email client does not support wrapping text at a given line length
> either.
Except for RFC2045, section 6.7, which addresses this:
A body which is
entirely US-ASCII may also be encoded in Quoted-Printable to ensure
the integrity of the data should the message pass through a
character-translating, and/or line-wrapping gateway.
In other words, "since we can't wrap at anyplace sane, we're worried that a
line pretending to be a paragraph will hit the 998-octet SMTP linelength
limit."
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