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   Tommi Koivula to Alexander Koryagin   
   NNTP server and quotation   
   07 Feb 19 21:39:14   
   
   "Alexander Koryagin" <0@6.221.2> wrote:   
      
    > Hi, ALL!   
    >   
    > When I wrote messages via Paul Quinn's NNTP server I had a neat feature   
    > of his server -- it could properly make quotation when I replied to   
    > messages. NNTP server of Tommy Koivula doesn't have such ability. Does   
    > Tommy's server have no such an ability or the feature is not turned on?   
      
   There is a setting "-smartquote":   
      
   "The quoting style of most newsreaders is different from traditional fidonet   
    software. If you enable this option, JamNNTPd will try to change any quoted   
    lines to fidonet style. This means that it will try to insert the initials   
    of the person you reply to before the '>' character and also that it will try   
    to compound multiple generations of quotes, i.e. "AA> BB>" will be changed   
    into "BB>>".   
      
    Reformatting quotes in this way means that the user who posts a message will   
    no longer have final say over the final content of the message since it will   
    be changed after he or she sends it to JamNNTPd. Since this in principle is   
    a bad thing even if quoted text will look a lot better after reformatting,   
    this option is turned off by default."   
      
    > ---   
    >   * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)   
      
   And yes, it has been turned off in this server. Every newsreader has it own   
   way of quoting, so it may or may not work properly.   
      
   'Tommi   
      
   PS. Please check the spelling of my first name. ;)   
      
   ---   
    * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)   

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