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Skriven 2012-03-29 16:07:13 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av alexander koryagin (2:5020/2140.2)
Ärende: format=flowed (was: Jamnntpd Servers List)
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Hello alexander,

On Thursday March 29 2012 10:36, you wrote to me:

 ak>>> What do you think if all the people will write their messages in
 ak>>> long paragraphs (like this message) will it for the better?

 Mvd>> It will be better, because that is the agreed Fidonet standard!

 ak> Do you mean that the Fidonet standard prohibits writing letters with
 ak> short lines?

"Prohibit" is the wrong word. It is not prohibited, it is not possible. Fidonet
message are not made u of lines, they are made up of paragraphs. The hard
carriage return (0DH) marks the end of a paragraph, not the end of a line.

The original specification includes the soft return (8DH) and that comes close
to a line terminator, but the use of the soft return is discouraged as it
conflicts with the use of extended character set. In codepage 866, normally
used for writing in Cyrillic, 8DH is the Cyrillic character that resembles the
Roman 'H'.

 ak>  I don't think so, it's illogical. It seems to me there is
 ak> an agreement that if you wrap the lines in your message your lines
 ak> must not exceed 72 symbols in length.

There is and nver was such an agreement.

 ak>  In these case there will not any
 ak> distortions on the side of the reader, and, therefore formatting is
 ak> legal. Let me take a test.
 ak> ---------------------

On the contrary. The way you do it, you do not have short lines, you have short
/paragraphs/. It interferes with the qouting mechanism of my Golded. Look at
how the above qute looks.

 ak> Do you read the second variant correctly?

I read both correctly, but they are both formatted wrong and that messes up the
qouting mechanism.  They both contain carriage returns where they should not
be. The only difference is the length of the paragraphs. There should be no
carriage returns at all, except where you start a new /paragraph/.


Cheers, Michiel

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