Re: error message question

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:33:48 -0700
"David Melik" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello, I have used Usenet since the mid-1990s starting with
>Free Agent newsreader, then Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird
>newsreader parts, now Claws Mail newsreader part, and now I am
>trying SLRN and get apparently undocumented error messages. Can
>anyone explain? Last try it said what I put in the PS below
>(except I omitting the message). Maybe it has something to do
>with my default shell editor, NANO or PICO. How would I get
>SLRN to wrap the lines, or will the NNTP server actually do
>that?
>

>PS. The error message is below.
>
>Your message is not acceptable for the following reason(s):
>
>Your message breaks the following netiquette guidelines:
>

This message is from someone's fussy Aunt about being rude on
the Internet. Since *no one else* ever behaves that way watch
for a wooden spoon heading your way.

>    Please wrap lines with more than 80 characters (only first
> one is shown)
>

This line explains the error. Your line length exceeded what is
considered appropriate and you should limit it to eighty
characters or less. I usually go for less than 70 to allow for
quote characters in replies.

>This message was generated while looking at line 9:
>
>(message omitted)

The lines should be wrapped by your unspecified editor and will
be reported by slrn if greater than eighty characters. You can
add these next lines to your .slrnrc file to avoid the warning.

set reject_long_lines 0
set netiquette_warnings 0

That will not fix the long lines, but it will allow them to pass
without warnings. The fix is in your editor.


Mike Yetto
-- 
"Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to
claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a
method."
 - Michael Shermer

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