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This is caused by the Text::Autoformat module. It somethimes tries to be too clever and attempts to re-number lists... a bit like Microsoft and their annoying 'helpful' Word functions.

You can disable wordwrap on incoming articles by commenting out the following lines in newnews.pl

      if ($body =~ /\w/o) {
         $body = autoformat $body, {right=>$config{article_wrap},all=>1};
      }

These appear twice. Once on or around line 446 and again around line 553.

The new version doesn't have this problem.