form feeds in postings

[wa371]

I have heard various readers complain about the annoyance of form feeds
or control-L's in netnews postings.  Now recently the system that I am on
has begun to add form feeds automatically to anything that I post to the
newsnet.  What is going on here??

Bernd <bear-nd>
(Not affiliated with, nor speaking for U.C. San Diego)
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