20 Nov 16 16:13, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> @MSGID: 1:153/7001.0@fidonet 5831cbba
 MK> @REPLY: 1:154/10 5831c532
 MK> -={ 2016-11-20 10:13:46.072466282-06:00 }=-

 MK> Hey Nicholas!

 NB>> Are you hard wrapping in this original message?

 MK> The one you are replying to yes.  I thought I'd try it to see if I
recieved
 MK> it with the special spaces intact at this end.  Unfortunetly it never made
 MK> it and is still MIA along with many others.  :-/

it is possible that your post was added to another packet that had messages
from a system that is not setting the packed messages datetime stamp
properly.. it was setting them to all nulls and some tossers were stopping
processing the packet at that point... valid messages after the malformed one
were just left behind lost in the bucket...

 MK> Anyhow I don't think it is you that is causing the oddball hard wraps
 MK> I see in the messages that do make it through.  Beats me where it is
 MK> happening and I am giving up trying to figure out a proper 'fix' for
 MK> it.

it can be an interesting exercise... especially when you also get involved
with systems that use and recognise the "softCR" character (0x8d)... that
character has real meaning in other languages and is generally ignored... it
may also be followed by linefeeds but since linefeeds are ignored they
shouldn't really matter... in fact, FTS-0001 says that systems which display
message text should wrap long lines to suit the application... basically, even
hard wrapped posts can be "unwrapped" so the text can be displayed taking the
full width of the application's display viewport...

 MK> For the record this reply is via the 'normal' channel and isn't being
 MK> wrapped. All paragraphs are unbounded as per specs for packed messages.

something in the path below wrapped it in transmission, then... it arrived
here hard wrapped to fit an 80 column viewport :(

 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice

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