question and request for feature

Michael Jones (mtj@iglou.com)
Fri, 17 May 1996 02:03:01 -0400

yadda, yadda, yadda, first post, been using yarn since .84, was about
to give up on offline reading until I ran accross yarn, etc., yadda
yadda, yadda... did I leave anything out?

Okay, anyway...

For some reason I've never noticed this before. When, in a subject
line, Yarn encounters a post with a standard-change-of-subject with
the text (was: .....), it will truncate the subject both in reply and
in a list of the subjects on a newsgroup/folder. That is, a subject
of "This subject (was: That subject)" will be changed to just "This
subject", which I find somewhat annoying. Is this standard behavior
for newsreaders? Could there possibly be an option for Yarn to not
behave in this manner (if it's not specified somewhere in the RFCs,
that is)?

The second thing is the manner in which Yarn handles the reply-quote=
field in the config file. I would really like the ability to use
spaces and/or tabs before (or in place of) 'normal' quote characters.
Rather than just

# this is quoted (not really)

I'd like to be able to do a

# this is quoted (not really)

or even a

this is quoted (not really)

without having to resort to manual labor. This is the first real
'problem' I had with Yarn, and I thought it was about time I spoke,
uh, typed up. ;)

-- 
 Michael Jones (that's Aham to you!)
 mtj@iglou.com   or    aham@pulsar.cs.wku.edu
 Peace-monger-at-large.