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|    Carlos Navarro to Nicholas Boel    |
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|    23 Apr 24 16:57:42    |
      TID: FMail-W64 2.3.2.2-B20240419       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: UTF-8 4       MSGID: 2:341/234.1 6627cc8e       REPLY: 1:154/10 6615cdd4       09 Apr 2024 18:23, you wrote to me:               NB> I tried upping mailnews.wraplength to 79, and also down to 66 as        NB> suggested in some RFC that was posted by you in the past, I believe.        NB> Neither one helps. Where the default settings are now is probably the        NB> best. Fidonet style "smart quoting" sometimes just needs a bit of        NB> backspacing of the text that gets wrapped to the next line back up to        NB> the previous line it should be on.              I also did several tests and couldn't find anything that didn't have issues.               NB> If we were to fix that, we would probably have to get into the quoting        NB> and rewrapping part of the code in order to detect        NB> initials/smartquotes, remove them while remembering what quote level        NB> it was, rewrap the text to be quoted, and re-add the initials with the        NB> quote level (probably how Golded does it).              It might be done in different ways, but yes, I think that the solution would       be that Smapi/JamNNTPd re-wraps FTN-style quotes to 72 chars or less when       sending them to the client.              The alternative would be making clients support Fido-quotes. But this seems       more difficult... :-)              BTW, HotdogEd does. You can select NNTP-style (no initials) or FTN-style       quoting.              There was an old, experimental Thunderbird addon for this, FTNQuoter, but       AFAIK it only worked for ancient TB versions...              Carlos              --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: cyberiada (2:341/234.1)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260 135/220       SEEN-BY: 135/225 153/757 7715 154/10 30 203/0 218/700 221/0 6 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038 291/111 292/8125       SEEN-BY: 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 256 1124 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 5054/30       PATH: 341/234 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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