Re: stats 2024 Q1

On 4/2/24 11:52, Olivier Miakinen wrote:

Actually, it seems that there is also a (lesser) problem that only affects
the newsreaders which accept the format flowed, because apparently your
MesNews did not do the "space-stuffing" :
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2646#section-4.4>
 <cit. (only the first characters of the lines)>
  num| Name                                                     | Nb Msg |
----|----------------------------------------------------------|--------|
   1 | Adam H. Kerman                                           |     78 |
</cit.>

This more aptly describes what I'm seeing.
My news reader does format flowed.

In format flowed, the space before "num" should have been doubled, and the
two spaces before "1" should have been three. Indeed, this indentation
stays correct for those who don't accept format flowed for reading, but
for the others it will be rendered shifted :
 <ex.>
num| Name                                                     | Nb Msg |
----|----------------------------------------------------------|--------|
  1 | Adam H. Kerman                                           |     78 |
</ex.>

I want to agree, but I think what you say is contrary to section 4.4 of RFC 2646 which you linked to.

Space-stuffing adds a single space to the start of any line which needs protection when the message is generated.

Okay.

On reception, if the first character of a line is a space, it is logically deleted.

Okay.

This occurs after the test for a quoted line, and before the test for a flowed line.

Hum.  So the logical deletion "occurs after the test for a quoted line".
But the lines in The Doctor's original message aren't quoted.  Maybe it's a difference in what "a quoted line" is.
Section 4.5 of RFC 2464 defines quoting as "one or more close angle brackets (">").
Aside:  I'm used to seeing the space after the close angle bracket, but maybe that's just convention and not a technical requirement.
--
Grant. . . .