[SpamCop-List] Re: patent-fr

[Philippe Verdy (n.o-s.p.a.m+abuse)]

"Ant" <not at home.today> a écrit dans le message de news: 
do197i$cm5$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "Philippe Verdy" wrote:
>
>> Plonk me if you wish, but I won't change back this, due to antiquity
>> mail/news readers.
>
> It's not really about old newsreaders, but more to do with the
> accepted behaviour in newsgroups.

Wrong. There does not exist any such *accepted* behaviour:accepted by whom? 
(Note that "behaviour" is related to the content of messages, respect of 
persons, topics, and crossposting policies, but not about the technical ways 
through which the messages can be posted.)

MIME is a RFC standard like newsgroups (but MIME has evolved more gracefully 
than NNTP which looks like a dynosaur today). MIME was intended to support 
all message formats independantly of the transport used (so it was created 
for NNTP too, not only for SMTP). Its updates do represent a better view of 
state-of-the-art solutions foraddressing international issues.

News readers that donot interpret correctly the plain-text flow and 
*display* long lines instead of wrapping are not helping users.

Also I have not seen any Spamcop policy about such required message format.