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echo: english_tutor
to: DALLAS HINTON
from: ANTON SHEPELEV
date: 2020-05-04 22:06:00
subject: Misinterpretation... 1.

Dallas Hinton to Denis Mosko:

> Indentation is very hard to handle in FidoNet - each message
> editor has it's own ideas!! It is possible to preceed a section
> of text with 2 tilde characters "~" and that's supposed to
> prevent reformatting, but with messages going through so many
> different systems there's no guarantee it will work.

I don't think so. Good transfer agents do not meddle with
formatting, so we generally see what the author has written:

> This next section should have various indents - we'll see what
> happens:
>
> level
>            Indent
>                        More Indent
>                                          Yet more indent
> and back to level.
>
> :-)

Fine as Fido:

  __      _
o'')}____//
 `_/      )
 (_(_/-(_/

Bow-wow!

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