Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Long lines in news (Re: checksums in news) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 90 19:15:38 GMT References: <1990Jul22.195243.28379@zoo.toronto.edu> <19198@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 On the little twiddles at the end of the line... > You're probably right about most people, but I'd guess that most people ~ > at sites with more than one main feed would prefer junking mangled ~ > articles. And all people everywhere would probably prefer that a ~ > mangled copy get replaced by a good copy if one happens along somehow. It occurs to me that it might be better to mark hard carriage returns than soft ones. / It might also be less disturbing for the casual reader if the *beginning* +of continuation lines were marked, a-la FORTRAN, instead of the end. At +least people are *used to seeing stuff there. You would have to somehow +get people to standardise quotations, though, which might be an insur- +mountable problem. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`