Another New Feature Request

Steve Wendt pmmail@rpglink.com
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 11:15:23 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:04:36 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    821 is dated 8/82 and is not being shown as being superceded by any other
>document.  Translation for the not-technical, a single-line paragraph is a bad
>idea for if it exceeds 1000 characters (~12 "lines") the SMTP should reject
>the message for having lines which are too long.  This is one standard I don't
>particularly care to see removed or revised.

Unless the revision reduces the maximum a little.  1000 characters is a bit much, 
although some web sites seem to think URLs that long are a good idea.


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