Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

[Kai Henningsen]

[e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)  wrote on 11.05.01 in <p0510030db7221c090810@[10.128.7.49]·2>:

> At 1:32 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> >On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:25AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >>  Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >>  >What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this
> >>  >stuff should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping,
> >>  >so irregardless of good or bad design it's just plain illegal.
> >>  >
> >>  >If you want to support wrapping with plain text, investigate
> >>  >format=flowed.
> >>
> >>  Yes, I did that.
> >>
> >  > I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid
> >>  receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail clients do it.
> >>  What's the relevant RFC?
> >
> >RFC 2822, 2.1.1.
>
> Thanks. It's not quite a standard yet, but it's true, it does limit
> lines to 998 characters. Sort of a strange limit, but there you
> are....

It's the unchanged old RFC 821 SMTP line length limit [4.5.3 SIZES, text  
line] (the consequences are just spelt out more clearly). And 821 is from  
1982, so this is certainly not new in any sense of the word.

MfG Kai