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

 MK> @MSGID: 1:153/7001.0@fidonet 5831cbba
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 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 

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