From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 05:40:28 CDT
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> Format=flowed (which includes signature and quote characters) went out as
> proposed standard; I don't know if that would really buy us anything here,
> so I suspect an informational RFC would be just fine.
> Stuff I'd like to see in such a thing:
> Spoiler-char use of form feed
> *bold* _underlined_ and /slanted/ text
> Possibly mention various backspace-highlighting methods as not really
> appropriate to this format
> Anything else? Anyone else interested in this? Any bright ideas on how
> this should interact with f=f?
The other stuff that routinely comes up is syntax for embedded URLs and
syntax of attribution lines so that they can be "buttonized" by software.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>