Re: Bye, bye, bash

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:10:06PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:

> That paragraph -- that message -- was text/plain format=flowed (RFC
> 3676). A mail reader that understands that would word-wrap the text
> to fit the width of its screen or window. If it were wider than you
> like, you could make the window narrower.

> A mail reader that doesn't understand flowed text would display the
> text as fixed-length lines no more than 78 characters long.

> So why fill the paragraph?

I mean the quoted version of it in my reply, as I'm editing it
before submission. Which clearly is fully independent of the MIME
settings of the original, and also wider by the length of the quote
marks.

-- 
Ian