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  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) On the well-behaved e-mail clients, yes. On the worse clients, they jam a whole paragraph into a single line. I saw one which resulted in a line 890 characters long.(!) (...) I agree -- a hideously long line is better than one that's full of (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Yes, that's what I meant. (...) It's usually at a line break, though, isn't it? And even so it is better than what is currently displayed; further refinements could be made to make it better yet... Or just let the browser do the word wrapping (...) (22 years ago, 19-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Adding a second newline? You mean $body =~ s/=\n/\n/g or $body =~ s/=$//m ? Any of those would break words in half. (The = at the end isn't guaranteed to occur at a line break.) --Todd (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) I think s/=$/\n/ would be adequate for that case. You could always improve it later. --Bill. (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Heh heh, funny you should mention that... Last night I was just thinking about this again and am 98% ready to deploy a fix. I've really noticed the increase in these posts lately too (especially coming in through the News-by-Mail gateways). A (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)


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