On 30 Jan 2026, Accession said the following...

Hey Fusion!On Fri, Jan 30 2026 13:18:00 -0600, you wrote:> i used to
think they were spam but i think DM said he posts them.They are
autoposted from tldr.com or something, I think. > i suspect the
"garbage" is just utf-8 characters that aren't handled> properly.. would be nice if those were stripped out insteadIt is definitely handled properly. Not only by Synchronet, but most NNTP clients, also. I'm guessing since you can't actually post a UTF-8 message with Mystic, that mystic doesn't support displaying UTF-8 properly, either.While UTF-8 support was started in Mystic, I'm not sure it ever made it to the
message bases (they still force CP437, I believe)..Regards,Nick... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.--- þ Synchronet þ _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)

Your messages (accession) usually show up as a giant wall of text also for whatever reason. You can see it in my quote there probably.

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On 30 Jan 2026, finglonger said the following...

Your messages (accession) usually show up as a giant wall of text also
for whatever reason. You can see it in my quote there probably.

yeah, it might work if you go into your qwk settings on vert and change it to word wrap for you, but i still see some get through that look wonky

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Hey Finglonger!

On Fri, Jan 30 2026 12:10:00 -0600, you wrote:

Your messages (accession) usually show up as a giant wall of text
also for whatever reason. You can see it in my quote there probably.

You may be able to fix that on your hub (VERT, I assume). There's options like "Use UTF-8" which you could try disabling, if needed. And as fusion said, there may be some settings on word wrapping in regards to terminal widths, etc.

Regards,
Nick

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Hey Fusion!

On Fri, Jan 30 2026 16:26:00 -0600, you wrote:

no, it's not. not for him. why inject Synchronet and some NNTP
clients into it? that's like me telling you my car runs fine when
yours is overheating.

Actually, it was brought up because this started out as a Synchronet only network. So while many things may work for Synchronet and Synchronet's NNTP service out of the box, it may not with Mystic, which then is where I went into the next paragraph.

clients, also. I'm guessing since you can't actually post a
UTF-8 message with Mystic, that mystic doesn't support
displaying UTF-8 properly, either.

yes, see, you understand what i said, you just wanted to talk about
something else first.

Yep. To try and give an idea as to why it may not work for him, or you, I suppose. James started supporting QWK networking with Mystic, and then, IIRC asked DM if he would allow Mystic systems to connect to Dovenet (maybe even warning of possible issues that might crop up).

Some of these settings on VERT for QWK nodes to configure may even have been added /because/ of Mystic.

Regards,
Nick

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On 31 Jan 2026, Accession said the following...

Hey Finglonger!On Fri, Jan 30 2026 12:10:00 -0600, you wrote:> Your messages (accession) usually show up as a giant wall of text> also for whatever reason. You can see it in my quote there probably.You may be
able to fix that on your hub (VERT, I assume). There's options like "Use UTF-8" which you could try disabling, if needed. And as fusion said,
there may be some settings on word wrapping in regards to terminal
widths, etc.Regards,Nick... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.--- þ Synchronet þ _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)

i think digital man pointed it out as a mime thing.

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