Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To : mark lewis
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Apr 14 2019 01:32 am
Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
By: mark lewis to Ozz Nixon on Fri Apr 12 2019 09:18 am
>
> On 2019 Apr 12 03:31:24, you wrote to me:
>
> VC>> tearlines and origin lines and even message body lines have
> VC>> artificial limits placed on them because folks got used to 80x25
> VC>> terminals... they look very funny when viewed on terminals with
> VC>> larger widths...
>
> ON> *SBBS* has a bug, I just noticed the last two emails I have "quoted"
> ON> it is putting the incorrect initials ... VC should be ML... :-/
>
> nope... that bug is in the editor that xxcarol has in place... she was told
> about the bug and the fix years ago... she still hasn't taken care of it by
> installing the updated/fixed editor :shrug:
>
> ON> Anyway, would it be worth implementing a Kludge for flowed - when
> ON> found 0d is ignored and paragraphs get formatted by the reader? This
> ON> is how JAMNNTPd works - in my NNTP server code I dropped flowed since
> ON> it was really messing up BBS_ADS and a couple other echos. I thinking
> ON> adding ^aFORMAT: flowed^m would help in the cases that people can
> ON> handle >80 columns.
>
> ON> That would make ^aCOLS: 80^m make a little more sence ;)
>
> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used for but
> why do i want to display a message artifically restricted to 80cols on my
> 125 character wide terminal?
Sorry, but you don't understand the intention of those control line then. I'd
be happy to discuss it.
