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|    Message 703 of 1,237    |
|    August Abolins to Nicholas Boel    |
|    when you can do what wasn't meant to be    |
|    03 Mar 24 12:56:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 12170302       REPLY: 1:154/10 65e490f2       PID: OpenXP/5.0.58 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Nicholas Boel!              ** On Sunday 03.03.24 - 09:02, Nicholas Boel wrote to August Abolins:               AA>> Sylpheed seems to add the Re: and thus cuts off the text at the        AA>> beginning of the subject. I don't see where the Re: can be disabled.        AA>> Personally, I don't like the addition of Re:               NB> I don't think it's Sylpheed that adds that. There is an option in your        NB> smapinntpd.config "nostripre" or something like that. Change that        NB> setting and "Re: " won't be added to replies.              I looked for various versions of that file, and nothing shows        up. :(              Sypheed 3.2.0 here, BTW.                      AA>> So.. the fault is not FTN per se. FTN was built to support an        AA>> English-speaking community. And as you have discovered, just supporting        AA>> utf-8 is not enough espectially if the the requirement is to support        AA>> languages that typically require writing/reading right-to-left.               NB> But it's kind of satisfying when you can do what wasn't meant to be        NB> done. Isn't it? ;)              I can be impressed with some resourcefulness that goes on. The        "kludge" options in the FTN header is one of those things.              --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.58        * Origin: (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 128/260 135/225 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 601 700 820 840 850 860 870 880       SEEN-BY: 218/930 940 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 266/512 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 460/58 633/280 712/848 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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