Re: stats 2024 Q1

Le 03/04/2024 06:06, Grant Taylor m'a répondu :

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The problem is with the format flowed, which makes impossible to send
lines of more than 79 characters as soon as they contain at least
one space. See <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2646>.

 
It may be related to format flowed.  But I don't believe that format
flowed prevents lines of more than 79 characters....  There are
conventions about what character count on the line to do the format
flowed split.  But a convention is a convention and can be changed.
I've done format flowed at 25 characters and I've done format flowed at
256 characters.

Indeed, even though it is not a mere convention in RFC 2646, it is a
SHOULD and not a MUST. According to BCP 14 (RFC 2119) it *may exist*
valid reasons to ignore this SHOULD, and the specific configuration of
a newsreader may be considered to be a valid reason.

So, The Doctor could consider extending the maximum length before sending
their stats (here I do not discuss on the subject to the interest of such
stats, another discussion exists in parallel).

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Of course, the newsreaders that are prepared (and configured to)
understand the format flowed don't see any problem

 
Um, flag on the post.  I'm using format flowed and I do see the problem.

At the time of my first post, I had only seen the *big* problem for those
who do not accept the format flowed in reading. But afterwards I saw
another (lesser) problem for those who read the format flowed. I tried
to launch a discussion about this bug in a French-speaking newsgroup
because the developer of MesNews is French, but I believe that Arnaud does
not really support this software anymore.


Best Regards,
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Olivier Miakinen