Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To : KEES VAN EETEN
From : OZZ NIXON
Date : Thu Apr 18 2019 11:30 am
-> As for semingly useless kludges, many usenet and e-mail gateways preserve a
-> or many RFC header line in kludges. Nobody complains there.
That is what I had to do with my newsgroup server. I actually rewrote
the JAMmb API to accomodate a backbone news feed. In it, I have logic
that is ^aCOLS exists then force the Content-Type to non-flowed. 2nd
piece of logic is (if none of the body has a Hard CR prior to column 60
in what appears to be a paragraph - then I turn on format=flowed,
otherwise I still keep that off.
In weeks of testing, I have found that 99% of the time, that logic is
spot on - allowed newsgroup readers on laptops and mobile devices to
read BBS_ADS correctly, the FILE listings, versus these type of
standard messages. (right now I am on DOCs BBS, as my Fidonet flow is
still dead).
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