From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 07:12:36 CST
In <s65qYrAb6xq8IAng@pillar.turnpike.com> Ian Bell <ianbell@turnpike.com> writes:
>On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>>In preparing my followup, am I allowed/expected to insert new soft breaks
>>in the quoted text regardless, or may I only do that if the precursor was
>>flowed (i.e. where it already had lines with trailing spaces).
>The former. You cannot _know_ where the paragraphs are in the original
>quoted text if there is no format=flowed mark-up and so you can't change
>hard breaks into soft breaks.
Then ITYM "The latter".
>>If that is so, and some of the quoted messages were flowed and
>>some not, then it would seem that I might be able to reflow the lines
>>starting with '>>>' and '>', but not those starting with '>>>>' and '>>'.
>>It that correct?
>Not quite. Once a message hits a non-RFC2646 client, all previous flow
>history will be lost. However, you may well end up with being able to
>flow > and >>, but not >>> and >>>>. This happens all the time in our
>support newsgroup.
Not necessarily. If the non-RFC2646 client just happens to retain the
trailing spaces from the things already quoted in its precursor, then you
may still be able to reflow those lines in the manner I suggested.
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