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|    Bj”rn Felten to Matt Bedynek    |
|    def_showto behavior    |
|    05 Aug 15 19:16:27    |
       MB> Wanted to discuss the def_showto behavior and handling. I notice some        MB> oddities created by having -> inside the from field. It seems to cause        MB> particular problems with special characters (umlauts).               Are you sure?               What we've discovered during the more than ten years of testing, is that       one big problem is that most fido editors don't use the CHARS kludge to       convert the message header -- so the news readers used to access JamNNTPd       messages work differently than the fido editors accessing the same message.               In fact, one of the last comments by Johan Billing was that he realised       this problem, but could not easily figure out how to fix it.              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125        * Origin: news://felten.yi.org (2:203/2)    |
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