On Tue 23 Jul 2013 at 17:44:16 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Rock posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:24:02 +0000 as excerpted: > > > PS: Why do "tabs" get inserted in the Subject line? > > Didn't notice until you mentioned it and not sure here, but they're often > used for "header folding", when a header is longer than the standard 80- > char line from back in the day when that's what a normal screen width was.
Yes, and if that happens, you would see a newline followed by a tab. Programs that interpret mail/news headers should fold that back to a single line before they look at them and remove the newline + tab. > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.' _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
