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Re: Line Wrapping Question

"John W. Noerenberg" <jwn2@qualcomm.com> Thu, 08 February 1996 22:32 UTC

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From: "John W. Noerenberg" <jwn2@qualcomm.com>
To: Terry Crowley <tcrowley@vermeer.com>, Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>
Cc: "ietf-822@list.cren.net" <ietf-822@list.cren.net>, "Sukvinder Singh Gill(Exchange)" <sukvg@wspu.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Line Wrapping Question
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At 10:29 AM 2/8/96, Terry Crowley wrote:
>
>1. For maximum interoperability of text composed by the user in an
>automatically wrapping text editor, send text/plain with short, hard-wrapped
>lines.  Wrap at something less that 80 characters (72 or 76 are good choices)
>to allow for quoting on reply.  If possible, send as 7-bit.  If your data
>contains 8-bit characters, you'll probably have to provide a user option about
>whether they want to encode as QP in this case or "just send 8-bit".
>
>2. If you want to send automatically wrapped text, use text/enriched, encoded
>using QP.
>
>If you're a vendor of MIME-capable software, support for text/enriched is a
>must.
>

Bravo!  Well said, Terry.

john noerenberg
<mailto:jwn2@qualcomm.com>
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