Subj : format=flowed
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Apr 28 2024 13:30:19

23 Apr 2024 19:29, you wrote to me:

 NB>>> * Note no "format=flowed" on there. This seems to be the same
 NB>>> results found in Tommi's Wendzelnntp or whatever it was.

 CN>> As expected. SBBS's NNTP server does not use format=flowed.

 NB> So does that mean the NNTP server Tommi is using also does not use
 NB> f=f?

 NB> I've also been looking through as many FAQs as I can find on inn
 NB> (InterNetNews) which is/was/might+still+be a very popular news server,
 NB> and don't see much of anything mentioned about format=flowed at all.

As far as I understand, standard NNTP servers do not generate the Content-type header (where "format=flowed" is specified), but it's stored in the messages themselves. If a client posted a message with f=f, that message will have it when received by any newsreader.

Smapi/JamNNTPd and Synchronet insert the Content-type header when exporting from their JAM/SMB/... messagebase and sending to the client. The former adds the f=f part there.

 NB> Seems to me f=f is/was more of an email thing.

Mainly, I suppose, but it's used by TB and Seamonkey for both mail and news.

Carlos

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