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From: nick@nswitgould.OZ (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Messages with >80-character lines
Message-ID: <1057@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 22:56:32 EST
Article-I.D.: nswitgou.1057
Posted: Wed Oct 21 22:56:32 1987
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References: <7526@g.ms.uky.edu>
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in article <7526@g.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) says:
| 
| Some of us (you included) are trying to free this network from its'
| reliance on Unix.  Building the WorldNet and such like.  But what will
| the IBM people on BITNET think if they start seeing every article come
| in with 2000 character long lines because someone on a Unix machine
| wanted "automatic formatting" of his paragraphs?  They'll only be able
| to read the first 80 (132?) characters of each paragraph.
| 

	Gee whiz, if the IBM OS can't handle it then it must be accomplished
by the gateway machine(s). How many gateways are there between BITNET and
UUCP?  It should be a (relatively) simple matter for each gateway processor
to fold long lines before the IBMs get hold of it.  Slower?  Nah ... a couple
of instructions!

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