On 17 Aug 2023, Alexander Grotewohl said the following...
 
 AG> since both examples there were bodged. i'll retry this:
 AG> 
 AG> http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/derp.txt

Thanks for this, I know how to left/right/centre justify text, that's not the issue, see my previous screenshots. I just want to make  the message list (not the message base list) look nice on a 132x37 or bigger terminal.

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