On 2019 Apr 08 12:11:18, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 AI> If Mystic is doing that (and it looks like it does), I'm sure that
behavior
 AI> can be changed. Mystic is designed for an 80x25 terminal, so it's
something
 AI> a Mystic operator would never notice. I never noticed myself since my
 AI> terminal is 80x30.

the main thing is that no software should /ever/ modify the message text... it
should only add to the seenbys and the path line... mucking about with anything
 else in the message being processed before packing to other systems is
BadJuJu<tm> and highly frowned upon...

software can do whatever it wants to to messages stored in its message base and
 displayed to its users... rescans of these messages will result in them being
different than the originals when inspected at the packet level... with this in
 mind, there really is no need for software to mess about with the messages at
all... let the users' terminals determine where the wrap takes place... not
adding, stripping, or altering characters anywhere in a message (other than the
 few specified places) is ultimately the best thing...

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