On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:42:56PM -0500, Daniel Barclay said: > > Is broken really the right adjective? > > Those mail readers weren't broken (or called broken) when they were written, > and they haven't lost functionality since. Yes; they were not liberal in what they accept. They assumed everybody would do lines of less than 80 characters, and that they'd always be run on screens of 80 characters width. Neither assumption was technically legitimate. They should have accepted lines at least as long as the RFCs allowed as technically possible, and should have accepted screens as small as their intended platform allowed as technically possible. -- Shawn McMahon | Every time you walk out of the house FedEx Services | with clothes on, you give up freedom DSS-MCO Security Lead | for temporary safety.
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