On Dec 24, 2004, at 11:54 AM, michael brown wrote:

>
> In all fairness, you also used rfc's to support your arguments.
>
>
One should note that RFCs range from "international standard" to
"April Fools Joke" in their intent, and they tend to be carefully
labeled as to their level of "seriousness."  Quotes from a "Standards
track" RFC have more weight than quotes from "informational" RFCs.

The argument about whether the composer or reader should have more
control of the formatting of the document has become a religious issue
and is therefore banned from piclist :-)  The "problem" here is that
the composer is assuming that the reader will format it, and the reader
is assuming that the document is already correctly formated.  
(probably.)

All the email standards (excepting MIME, which allows anything to
be enclosed within an email) pretty much predate the concept of
reader-side formatting of "content."  I tend to believe that if you
send a text email, it ought to be formatted with CRLFs after each
line instead of after each paragraph.  Microsoft seems to have 
disagreed,
probably gratuitously, possibly maliciously, and almost certainly 
arrogantly,
and (unfortunately) they've been widely copied in modern mail clients.

Sigh.
BillW
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