Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

petite_abeille Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:23:01 +0100


On Sunday, Mar 9, 2003, at 10:36 Europe/Zurich, Blake Ramsdell wrote:

> Or we can just use the standard MIME construct of quoted-printable 
> which
> solves this problem completely.

As far as Chandler goes, yes. The application should be smart enough to 
use quoted-printable when appropriate. But what about those lesser life 
forms daring not to use Chandler? Of course Chandler could very 
appropriately mandate to communicate only with other Chandler users. In 
which case life will be swell ;-)

> Of course, this will offend troglodyte (trogluddite? ;)) mail users 
> that
> absolutely can't stand having the "=" character at the end of lines to
> represent soft line breaks.  Sigh.

Plus I heard that troglodytes don't take such offenses lightly. Be 
prepared for an onslaught of not compliant emails as a well deserve 
reprisal. You have been warned ;-)

PA.