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From: KIRK.TYM@OFFICE-2.ARPA (Kirk Kelley)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Body line length
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 15:42:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 15:42:00 1984
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To: HEADER-PEOPLE@MIT-MC

Our message converter to RFC 822 folds everything in the body at 80 columns as a
default (our paragraphs normally have no CRLFs in them).  We use 80 columns 
instead of something shorter because our customers send tables formatted for 80 
characters.  We would prefer not placing ANY line breaks in the paragraphs of 
the body.

   [We would also prefer not getting ANY line breaks in paragrahs FROM the 
   Internet, but thats another story.]

This would mean we would send some "lines" in the body thousands of characters 
long.  Are people going to suffer more from this as the default or from forcing 
line breaks at 80 or 72 or 60 or ????

Assuming SMTP knows how to deal with long lines, will mailers and mail readers 
break, or is this just a display aesthetics problem?

We aim to please.  -- kirk