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   Carlos Navarro to Nicholas Boel   
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   23 Apr 24 16:57:42   
   
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   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   
      
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