[Mailman-Developers] List-* header suggestion

[John A. Martin]

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>>>>> "RJ" == Ron Jarrell
>>>>> "Re: [Mailman-Developers] List-* header suggestion"
>>>>>  Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:32:06 -0400

    >> Would the long List-* header fields be more attractive and
    >> easier to read if they were folded something like the
    >> following?
    >>
    >> List-Subscribe: <http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers>,
    >>   <mailto:mailman-developers-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
    >> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers>,
    >>   <mailto:mailman-developers-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
    >> Perhaps folding after the comma would be OK unless the whole
    >> field is not greater than, say, 78 characters?


    RJ> Umm, the headers *are* folded.. In the very note that arrived
    RJ> from you, they were folded that way.  Unless a friendly MTA on
    RJ> the way to me folded them for me, or unfolded them for you...

I meant _folding a mail header field_ as described in rfc822 section
3.1.1.  Standards compliant MTAs won't fold or unfold a header field
that it does not itself create.  The header fields in question are not
now folded.  Perhaps your MUA wraps long lines.

	jam

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