Subj : quoting..
To   : August Abolins
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Dec 10 2024 03:44:13

Hey August!

> The problem with that ftsc proposal is that it doesn't define
> what a "line" is.

Back then the default terminal was 80 characters wide.  That was true for GUI terminals as well.  Thus when that document was written I believe everyone and their dog was assuming a line was 79 characters with the null character in the 80th position.  I seem to recall teletype machines being 72 characters, which could explain why some strings - subject() being a good example - are limited to 72 (71 plus null) characters.  As far as I am personally concerned, I vote for unlimited (unbounded) line lengths which is covered in http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0001.016.

> I may be mistaken but I believe the QWK messages do not have
> MSGIDs produced at the source.

QWK messages aren't FTN MSGs.  As we speak, my vim can do modified MSG format (packed MSG without the binary header garbage) but not QWK, or Bluewave.  It does email along with mutt's assistance.

Life is good,
Maurice

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