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Re: This forum has gone to crap

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: This forum has gone to crap
Date 2015-08-26 00:00 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 6:27:06 PM UTC-7, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
>> [...]
>> > The long line problem seems to be as follows:
>> >
>> [...]
>> > (3) There is a flag in the messages that are interchanged that sets  
>> > whether of not the messages will wrap around at the end of a line.
>> [...]
>> 
>> As far as I know there is no such flag.
>  
> I'm out of my depth here. The "flag" in question is "flow" as nearly
> as I can remember. It's in the mime of the message or some such place.
> I regret I am doing this all from (inadequate) memory and cannot get
> back to the original.

Oh, right, you're thinking of "format=flowed".  I forgot about that.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
http://joeclark.org/ffaq.html

I don't know how common it is.

And I think I've mentioned this before:

>> This message will appear word-wrapped to anyone who reads it because its
>> body contains explicit end-of-line markers ('\n' characters, possibly
>> translated to and/or from CRLF pairs at one or more points between my
>> machine and yours) no more than about 75 bytes apart.  I happen to be
>> using a text editor that makes it easy to do that.
>> 
>> I could just as easily have written each paragraph without internal line breaks, like this one (though actually I have to go to a little extra effort to tell my editor *not* to wrap it).
>> 
>> A message posted by a Google Groups user who does not explicitly insert
>> line breaks simply does not have those explicit end-of-line markers.  A
>> paragraph within such an article might consist of several hundred
>> characters with no embedded newlines.
>> 
>> How such long lines are displayed varies depending on the client
>> software in use.  The program I use wraps long lines, but not at
>> word boundaries; it can probably be configured to do something
>> else, but I've never bothered to find out how.  Web interfaces
>> like Google Groups typically display very long lines in some more
>> or less reasonable fashion.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
>> Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
>> "We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
>>     -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

*Please* trim quoted text when you post a followup, *especially* the sig
block, unless you're replying to it.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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