NLP followup

[Jacqui caren]

Aidan Samuel wrote:
> I think this immensley irritating limitation helped accelerate the
> demise of the otherwise noble plain-text email.

The same reason Postscript was uue'd - because quite a few MTA's
were at least partly script based and did not hndle long lines
well.

Even today I sometimes get email where original lines have bene 
'wrapped' by some helpful intermediate MTA.

QP encoding means that long lines may be invisibly folded
and hold 8 or 16it (gb2312) chars without grief from 7bitonly MTAs.

Jacqui