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Re: Weird Line Breaks
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Date: 
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 02:50:52 GMT
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:07:00AM +0000, TWS Garrison wrote:

> Okay, being lazy I still haven't figured out how to set FUT in Pine, so I
> fired up Opera and composed a message.  Then preview looked like it had
> some strange line breaks (even though I had already shortened the quoted
> material), so I went through the whole message and made sure that no line
> was more 60 characters long.  The result: this hideous mess
>  http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=9688
> Why? Why? Why?

sorry, no clue about opera or how it deals with text areas in HTML.
However...

> Also, does anyone know how to set FUT in Pine?

if you mean posting by email, just set the "reply-to" field to
"lugnet.some.group@lugnet.com" and the server will translate it
to a FUT header.  If you're browsing NNTP via pine (why?!?), I'm
not sure - but I think there used to be a ctrl-h command to show
more headers, and that you could configure which headers it would
show.  Of course, all my pine knowledge is very old - real men use
mutt :)

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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Okay, being lazy I still haven't figured out how to set FUT in Pine, so I fired up Opera and composed a message. Then preview looked like it had some strange line breaks (even though I had already shortened the quoted material), so I went through (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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