ml>> my mistake... yes, both are an annoyance and really not
 ml>> necessary if the software properly handles its own
 ml>> wordwrapping...

 WM> QWK's line breaks aren't an annoyance -- they're never
 WM> exposed to the outside world.

sure they are... my editors, several of them, display them all the time :(

 WM> QWK doesn't distinguish between lines and paragraphs, so a
 WM> QWK line break is generally translated to a hard CR. (It's
 WM> implementation-dependent exactly what happens, but in any
 WM> case, the Pi characters don't make it out.) That does mean
 WM> that QWK-posted messages usually aren't in true "paragraph
 WM> form". So, if you find that annoying, then yeah. :-) I can't
 WM> say that it bothers me, but then I always read (and write) in
 WM> 80 columns, and my reader rewraps when quoting, so I can
 WM> hardly tell the difference.

hehehe, i understand that... in my case, i'm currently operating in about
120x50 or so... it depends on the system that i'm on at the time ;)

 WM> BTW, this message comes to you via BW, not QWK, but my text
 WM> editor broke it into lines, so the effect is the same.

yes, i can see that there are newlines at the end of each line... the only
thing that does is to break the lines at "your" pointbreak rather
than at mine >  no biggie, really...

these things are just some things that have ticed at me over ther years...
with fidonet's capabilities and advances over many other media, it just
seems to me that we (fidonet) would have done a bit more to fit in more
with the technical specs of our hobby... as developers, that is... the
users would follow if the software advanced and worked properly... at
least, in theory ;)

)\/(ark