Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:50:50 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
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If you don't stop moaning about standards I'm going to post in html.

If you do it *properly*, it's no problem. But given your track record,
the chance of that is nil.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes

Quite impressive, declaring 'format=flowed', but then failing to
actually do so!

The whole point of format flowed is it flows. How can it flow if I
stick carriage returns into it?

Did anyone say anything about sticking carriage returns into the lines
you're typing?

Apparently you don't understand what 'format=flowed' is (not) and how
it works / doesn't work. That's perfectly fine. The user doesn't have to
understand this under-the-hood stuff. (S)He should just use a compliant
newsreader. Yours isn't, or it is misconfigured.

YOU can wrap my text to YOUR screen
at whatever point you wish, I'm not stopping you. But your posts have
hard CRs in them causing me to see a narrow column half the width I
want. Stop dictating how I see your text.

Stop using a broken newsreader. The beauty of 'format=flowed' is that
both the poster and the reader 1) can use it or not use it and 2) can
use the screen width they want, without either side "dictating"
anything. But, as shown, the article composing side of your newsreader
is broken, so it's no wonder that the reading display side is also
broken.

What was that again about "some moron is using a newsreader"!?

But I take it all back, the "moron" isn't using a newsreader:

User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32)

Email and news messages can be thought of as the same thing. The only
difference is where they're stored and how many people see them. Why
wouldn't you use the same program for both?

My tongue-in-cheek comment was about the 'Opera' part, not about the
'Mail' part.

But you're right, your Opera Mail thingy probably fscks up mail as
well as it does NetNews.