On 2021-03-23 9:55 AM (-4), Thorsten wrote:
> On 23.03.2021 14:33, Thorsten wrote:
>> On 23.03.2021 14:11, Cousin Ricky wrote:











>>
>> Indeed, I can confirm this. I will see what is going on.
> 
> Ok, so it turns out there are really three spaces in the message. The
> reason is, well, Thunderbird. You can see it in Thunderbird using
> More->View Source. It implements an email extension on a new server. The
> extension is called "format=flowed" and it is known to cause problems
> when transmitting source code over email (and thus news messages as
> well:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.html#email-clients
> 
> 
> Just google "format=flowed thunderbird" (without quotes). You will find
> plenty of complaints about it ...
> 
> Thunderbird (which I am also using) apparently has bugs with handling
> soft and hand line breaks and the correct conversion process to a final
> message format. It basically inserts the spaces even for hard line
> breaks, which makes exactly no sense at all when posting source code
> (which it cannot know, of course). It is only by chance that it then
> doesn't soft wrap your code when displaying the message...

OK, thanks.  I just turned it off on my end.  I'll see how that works
out in the future.

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