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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.   
      
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