I've been thinking of doing this one for a long time. I consider it a bug fix. Right now, if <pre> tag is in a post, the html of the message will be like:

<br /><pre>  
<br>unless ($FORM{$entry} =~ /&lt;pre&gt;/i) {  
<br>	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/\s+/ /g;  
<br>	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/&lt;BR&gt;\s/&lt;BR&gt;/g;  
<br>} </pre>

The <br>s are NOT supposed to be in there. When viewed in FF, for eg, the code in the message will be shown in double line spacing, which is bad in particular for boards that use <pre> a lot for showing coding.

The fix is easy. Edit webbbs_post.pl.
Find and add the stuff shown in red below:

 
unless ($FORM{$entry} =~ /<pre>/i) { 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>\s\s\s+/<BR><BR>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>\t/<BR><BR>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/\s+/ /g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>\s/<BR>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/\s<BR>/<BR>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR><BR>/<P>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<P><BR>/<P>/g; 
	unless ($SingleLineBreaks) { 
		$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>$AutoQuoteChar/<BRR>/g; 
		$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>&gt;/<BRR>/g; 
		$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>>/<BRR>/g; 
		$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>/ /g; 
		$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BRR>/<BR>$AutoQuoteChar/g; 
	} 
} 
# 2005-12-13 fixed: remove <br> within <pre> & </pre> 
if ($FORM{$entry} =~ /<pre>/i) { 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<P>/\n<P>/g; 
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/<BR>/\n<BR>/g; 
	my @bodytext = split(/\n/,$FORM{$entry}); 
	my ($preopen, $thisbody); 
	foreach (@bodytext) { 
		if ($preopen) { $_ =~ s/<BR>/\n/g; } 
		if ($_ =~ /<pre>/i) { $preopen = 1; } 
		if ($_ =~ /<\/pre>/i) { $preopen = 0; } 
		$thisbody .= "$_"; 
	}  
	$FORM{$entry} = $thisbody; 
}

Done.

Yes, done. It's that easy. After the fix, the html will be like:

<br /><pre>  
unless ($FORM{$entry} =~ /&lt;pre&gt;/i) {  
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/\s+/ /g;  
	$FORM{$entry} =~ s/&lt;BR&gt;\s/&lt;BR&gt;/g;  
}</pre>

No double line spacing.

Have yet to test see how this bug fix and $AutoQuote get along...