Re: make mutt the `standard' mail reader
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> The "de-facto standard Internet tab size" has always been 8 characters.
Always? The 1982 standard for ARPANET¹ email (RFC 822) explicitly
states in Section 3.4.2 that there is no nework-wide standard tab size
and so the use of HTAB is discouraged.
Antti-Juhani
¹ ... known as Internet to us newbies ...
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