Plain text wrapping in Gmail
The point of the convention is making the text fit on a 80-character fixed-with screen. QP-encoding the text won't solve that problem, as it will only create a very long line that is encoded in a way that has literal line breaks into it, which isn't the point.<p>What should be done, I believe, is that e-mail _clients_ should detect the 78-character convention and rejoin the lines into paragraphs if they think it would be best.<p>What Gmail does when sending mail is right, and the alternative view is that this convention should be dead and they should just throw it away and send very long lines.