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Hello Nicholas Boel!

** On Sunday 03.03.24 - 09:02, Nicholas Boel wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Sylpheed seems to add the Re: and thus cuts off the text at the
 AA>> beginning of the subject.  I don't see where the Re: can be disabled.
 AA>> Personally, I don't like the addition of Re:

 NB> I don't think it's Sylpheed that adds that. There is an option in your
 NB> smapinntpd.config "nostripre" or something like that. Change that
 NB> setting and "Re: " won't be added to replies.

I looked for various versions of that file, and nothing shows  
up.  :(

Sypheed 3.2.0 here, BTW.


 AA>> So.. the fault is not FTN per se. FTN was built to support an
 AA>> English-speaking community. And as you have discovered, just supporting
 AA>> utf-8 is not enough espectially if the the requirement is to support
 AA>> languages that typically require writing/reading right-to-left.

 NB> But it's kind of satisfying when you can do what wasn't meant to be
 NB> done.  Isn't it? ;)

I can be impressed with some resourcefulness that goes on.  The  
"kludge" options in the FTN header is one of those things.

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