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Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer
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> >>
> >  > I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid
> >>  receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail clients do it.
> >>  What's the relevant RFC?
> >
> >RFC 2822, 2.1.1.
> 
> Thanks. It's not quite a standard yet, but it's true, it does limit 
> lines to 998 characters. Sort of a strange limit, but there you 
> are....
> 

Perhaps it's 998 so that with the \r\n end of line it rounds out to an
even 1000.
That limit is slightly more sensical.

Steven