Pan word wrapping an example of slopware 1524

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:58:01 +0000

To Windows XP et al, of course. Everyone should be using Windows XP. The doggie in particular looks like a very useful item which just looks like he will sit there and drool (at that, he's probably an improvement over a certain paper clip), and of course having remote administration by the community and spyware just adds value to the package...for some variant of "value", of course.

Granted, I don't use Pan, and am not clear on its nuances regarding wordwrapping -- but an uncorrected OE is (was?) far worse, especially when one includes prior text;

and that's buttuming the user even reconfigured OE to do the inclusion properly, as its default behavior top-posts and does things like

You are being silly.

On Dec 18, 1999, somebody wrote

You are being silly.

On Dec 17, 1999, somebody wrote

You are being silly.

or something like that, unless they've changed it by now to avoid Customer Service going deaf in one ear.

Fortunately, there is a patch for this behavior.

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-- It's still legal to go .sigless.