Re: format=flowed : why not use HTML?

[Randall Gellens <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:58 AM -0700 9/1/98, Laurence Lundblade wrote:

>"QP encoding MUST be used when necessary to encoded non-US characters;
>however it SHOULD not be used unless necessary. It is preferable to risk
>formatting damage than to insert formatting crud that may cause the
>format=flow text format to be rejected by end users as incompatible with
>plain text"

Or even

While Quoted-Printable encoding MUST be used when necessary to encode
non-US-ASCII characters, it SHOULD NOT be used unless required for such
uses; that is, if the SMTP server supports 8BITMIME, or the message
only contains US-ASCII characters, there is no need for
Quoted-Printable encoding.

The intent of Format=Flowed is to allow user agents to generate flowed
text which is non-obnoxious when viewed as pure Text/Plain; use of
Quoted-Printable hinders this and may cause Format=Flowed to be
rejected by end users.