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   Anton Shepelev to Dallas Hinton   
   Misinterpretation... 1.   
   04 May 20 22:09:12   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/6.0 5eb06856   
   REPLY: 1:153/7715.0 eb063012   
   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20200418   
   EID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15   
   Dallas Hinton to Denis Mosko:   
      
   > Indentation is very hard to handle in FidoNet - each message   
   > editor has it's own ideas!! It is possible to preceed a section   
   > of text with 2 tilde characters "~" and that's supposed to   
   > prevent reformatting, but with messages going through so many   
   > different systems there's no guarantee it will work.   
      
   I don't think so. Good transfer agents do not meddle with   
   formatting, so we generally see what the author has written:   
      
   > This next section should have various indents - we'll see what   
   > happens:   
   >   
   > level   
   >            Indent   
   >                        More Indent   
   >                                          Yet more indent   
   > and back to level.   
   >   
   > :-)   
      
   Fine as Fido:   
      
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   o'')}____//   
    `_/      )   
    (_(_/-(_/   
      
   Bow-wow!   
      
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