Re: make mutt the `standard' mail reader

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:38:32PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> 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.

That's what makes it a "de-facto" standard.  Unfortunately, no standards,
even de-facto ones, are universally implemented because there are people who
(often rightly) believe that they're junk.

Yay for ^H versus DEL :)

Have fun,

Avery