27 Feb 16 14:25, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 ml> the evolved defacto format for quoting in fidonet has evolved...

 ml>  1. reflow paragraphs instead of truncating lines when quoting...
 ml>  2. recognise older quotes and reflow the paragraph properly recognizing
 ml> those older quotes and keeping them together properly... 3. when
 ml> recognizing older quotes, append one ">" to the end of that existing
 ml> quote to show that it is quoted again... 4. only add a quote prefix when
 ml> reflowing and quoting a newly quoted paragraph...

Ironically GoldED makes a mess of this when quoting it! Geez. 2016 and we still
can't get quoting right.

I just checked and both timEd and Msged do it properly.

IIRC years ago Carol Shenkenberger's software had a problem truncating lines
when quoting messages?

Anyway, originally I was just going to point out that the reflow is
traditionally done at ~75 columns, so if anyone's writing a short document
explaining how quoting in Fido works, that should be mentioned.

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