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From: scotte@applix.com (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Long lines in Usenet postings
Message-ID: <1199@applix.com>
Date: 21 May 91 18:33:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: applix.1199
References: <1991May21.151653.22354@bqnes74.bnr.ca>
Reply-To: scotte@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., WestboroMA
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In article <1991May21.151653.22354@bqnes74.bnr.ca> CWatts@BNR.CA (Carl Watts) writes:
>Several people now have sent me comments about the long lines in my postings (like the NewsReader in Smalltalk) that appear mangled with split words and inserted lines.
>
>These problems are caused by bugs in the Usenet message transfers agents (like inews) that transfer messages between NewsServers.  Different ones impose different abitrary limits on the length of lines they transfer and this causes them to split words/lines/paragraphs by inserting additional carriage returns in the most unfortunate places.
>

Would you please cause your NewsPoster to insert the word "longlines" into
the subject header, so I can "kill" these messages until such time as every
news-site is repaired to your specifications?

-scott