20 Nov 16 16:13, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    MK> @MSGID: 1:153/7001.0@fidonet 5831cbba   
    MK> @REPLY: 1:154/10 5831c532   
    MK> -={ 2016-11-20 10:13:46.072466282-06:00 }=-   
      
    MK> Hey Nicholas!   
      
    NB>> Are you hard wrapping in this original message?   
      
    MK> The one you are replying to yes.  I thought I'd try it to see if I   
   recieved   
    MK> it with the special spaces intact at this end.  Unfortunetly it never made   
    MK> it and is still MIA along with many others.  :-/   
      
   it is possible that your post was added to another packet that had messages   
   from a system that is not setting the packed messages datetime stamp   
   properly.. it was setting them to all nulls and some tossers were stopping   
   processing the packet at that point... valid messages after the malformed one   
   were just left behind lost in the bucket...   
      
    MK> Anyhow I don't think it is you that is causing the oddball hard wraps   
    MK> I see in the messages that do make it through.  Beats me where it is   
    MK> happening and I am giving up trying to figure out a proper 'fix' for   
    MK> it.   
      
   it can be an interesting exercise... especially when you also get involved   
   with systems that use and recognise the "softCR" character (0x8d)... that   
   character has real meaning in other languages and is generally ignored... it   
   may also be followed by linefeeds but since linefeeds are ignored they   
   shouldn't really matter... in fact, FTS-0001 says that systems which display   
   message text should wrap long lines to suit the application... basically, even   
   hard wrapped posts can be "unwrapped" so the text can be displayed taking the   
   full width of the application's display viewport...   
      
    MK> For the record this reply is via the 'normal' channel and isn't being   
    MK> wrapped. All paragraphs are unbounded as per specs for packed messages.   
      
   something in the path below wrapped it in transmission, then... it arrived   
   here hard wrapped to fit an 80 column viewport :(   
      
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