Facebook's response to the guy demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the issue:<p><i>I apologize for this inconvenience. Unfortunately, this is not an error on our end. You will need to speak with your email provider in order to resolve this issue.</i><p>That said, I'm sure this just hasn't been a priority yet rather than something willful. That along with with browser compatibility as w1ntermute said above.
Facebook quite intermittently displays careless amateurism in its conduct. However, what exudes more concern in their response is the 'possibility' of any random employee having the audacity to respond to a matter like this, without actual insight.
Props to facebook for fixing it!<p><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.general/55843" rel="nofollow">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.general/55843</a><p>Although he credits reddit, this is the only post I can find and its karma score is less than 10:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8u78r/facebook_breaks_rfc2045_with_quoted_printable/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8u78r/facebook_b...</a><p>It had to be HN! :-)
a couple of questions out of curiosity:<p>first, why would facebook do this? Is it anything more than negligence?<p>Second, what are the consequences besides some facebook messages ending up truncated? Do excessive messages of this type choke up mailservers or anything else of the sort?
I'm going to start submitting stories like "${trendy_website} breaks ${random_official_sounding_standard} with ${what_can_break[random_official_sounding_standard]}" and link it to a post on some newsgroup. My karma will go through the roof.