Subj : Re: From the past???
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Nov 07 2022 16:26:00

>A couple of other conventions of interest to me are the use of 80 columns when
>posting, and the convention of using both upper- and lower-case letters. These
>are somewhat difficult to follow on the Atari 8-bit computers and PDP-8,
>respectively. But hey, whatever, right?

Either Synchronet, or some of the third party online editors that people
use with it, store messages in a string.  That is, you see it wrap on the
screen while you are entering it but, in reality, it is not wrapped.  Since
most FTN mail packets store messages in strings longer than 80 bytes, I am
not sure it matters too much.

However, for folks like you and me, it can cause trouble.
SLMR and/or QWK is expecting things to have already been wrapped, which can
make it more difficult to read.  Since I am the one using the older
software to read the message, I figure it is my problem and I make due.


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