DC>> I got into it because I like using BW!  It allows the longer
 DC>> taglines that QWK doesn't.

 NB> Well, BW even in QWK mode still has the longer taglines.  It
 NB> just doesn't have all the room for the *subject line* that
 NB> native BW has.  I miss that occasionally....

that's another thing that comes to mind when i speak of things being
shoehorned into fidonet... the message specs for fidonet messages allow for
up to 36 characters for the user names (to and from) and 72 characters for
the subjects... another silly item is that soft carriage return that QWK
stuff uses... its the lowercase i with an apostrophe over it instead of the
dot... that's actually a character in other languages... the specs say that
in fidonet, it is to be ignored as are any linefeeds... a hard carriage
return marks the end of a paragraph... this allows systems to word wrap
messages at their own margins... for example, i'm currently reading and
writting on a screen that's 132 columns by 50 lines ;)

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