Subj : Re: Second Coming
To   : Jonathan Hodges
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Apr 07 2020 18:17:53

Hi Jonathan,

On 2020-04-07 09:52:17, you wrote to me:

 WV>> It's on the top of your message, with the other kludges (probably not
 WV>> visible in your reader). It's normally added by your editor, not "by
 WV>> hand".

 JH> ?? Guess I need to figure out what a "kludge" is first.

You must be a real fidonet newbie! ;-)

I found this paragraph in this document: http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0068.001

Control lines in general:
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A control line is a line of text in the message's body (the
nul-terminated text portion of a message following the binary header;
see FTS-0001) ended by a carriage return. Some control lines are
preceded by a ^a (control-a, ASCII character 1) and are sometimes
referred to as "kludge lines."  Kludge lines are normally not shown when
displaying a message; the reading software will treat the initial ^a as
meaning "not (normally) for human consumption."

Which explains it a bit.

If you want to know more about FidoNet Technology, http://ftsc.org/ has a lot
of documentation! Maybe too much. ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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