From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: jlundell@pobox.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer
Date: 03 May 2001 09:32:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80BTbI6mw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p05100303b70eadd613b0@[207.213.214.37]>
In-Reply-To: <p05100303b70eadd613b0@[207.213.214.37]>
jlundell@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 26.04.01 in <p05100303b70eadd613b0@[207.213.214.37]>:
> At 10:31 PM -0600 2001-04-26, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >BTW: please fix your mailer to do linewrap at 72 characters. Your
> >lines are hundreds of characters long, and that's hard to read.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience. There are a lot of reasons why I believe
> it's properly a display function to wrap long lines, and that an MUA
> has no business altering outgoing messages (one on-topic reason being
> that patches get screwed up by inserted newlines), but I grant that
> there are broken clients out there that can't or won't or don't wrap
> at display time.
What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this stuff
should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping, so
irregardless of good or bad design it's just plain illegal.
If you want to support wrapping with plain text, investigate
format=flowed.
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-24 21:02 [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer Matt_Domsch
2001-04-24 21:59 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-24 23:16 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-27 4:31 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-27 5:24 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-01 1:27 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-01 8:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-01 16:53 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-01 20:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-02 15:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 15:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 8:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-03 9:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 10:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-01 14:38 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-03 7:32 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-05-03 7:51 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 16:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-11 22:49 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 23:00 ` Steven Willoughby
2001-05-12 2:20 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-12 4:21 ` Jonathan Lundell
[not found] <p0510030db7221c090810@[10.128.7.49]=FE2>
2001-05-12 11:00 ` Kai Henningsen
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