From: Ian Bell (ianbell@turnpike.com)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 10:17:07 CDT
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>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.
>Then ITYM "The latter".
Of course I did - sorry :-(((
>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.
No, because the non-RFC2646 client will have downgraded the entire MIME
part to text/plain, which by default means text/plain;format=fixed. In
that case, trailing spaces do not signify soft eols and so can't be
reflowed.
-- Ian Bell T U R N P I K E