Gmail eats Python

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 13:08:35 EDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:42 AM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 02:43, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> What Internet standard is being violated by reflowing text content in
>> the message body?
>
> Well, implicitly, text is only supposed to be reflowed when
> format=flowed is in use, and only then when each physical line of the
> file ends with a space character.

An implicit requirement is not a standard. The whole point of having a
standard is to make the requirements formal and explicit.



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