Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Jason Fesler:

 LE> I'd just scan for EOLs in the buffer, and keep a count until I got
 LE> close to the limit. then I'd worry about "parsing" the buffer. Of
 LE> course, if the buffer is at all large, you get nailed immediately
 LE> anyway. :-(

Can't do that unless I reformat all incoming messages, unless there's no line
length limit on those crippled BBS's.  What do you do with a line that's
1k long?  or 85 chars?  

Write the code :-) and it will get added, it's a sticky topic.  I'll even
name the option after you ;-)  (ie, like the BURT_JUDA_HACK).. 

cheers,
 jason