Subj : NNTP server and quotation
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Thu Feb 07 2019 21:39:14

"Alexander Koryagin" <0@6.221.2> wrote:

 > Hi, ALL!
 >
 > When I wrote messages via Paul Quinn's NNTP server I had a neat feature
 > of his server -- it could properly make quotation when I replied to
 > messages. NNTP server of Tommy Koivula doesn't have such ability. Does
 > Tommy's server have no such an ability or the feature is not turned on?

There is a setting "-smartquote":

"The quoting style of most newsreaders is different from traditional fidonet
 software. If you enable this option, JamNNTPd will try to change any quoted
 lines to fidonet style. This means that it will try to insert the initials
 of the person you reply to before the '>' character and also that it will try
 to compound multiple generations of quotes, i.e. "AA> BB>" will be changed
 into "BB>>".

 Reformatting quotes in this way means that the user who posts a message will
 no longer have final say over the final content of the message since it will
 be changed after he or she sends it to JamNNTPd. Since this in principle is
 a bad thing even if quoted text will look a lot better after reformatting,
 this option is turned off by default."

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 >   * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)

And yes, it has been turned off in this server. Every newsreader has it own way of quoting, so it may or may not work properly.

'Tommi

PS. Please check the spelling of my first name. ;)

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 * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)

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