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   Message 318 of 1,840   
   Nigel Reed to August Abolins   
   Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is mak   
   11 Jan 21 01:02:56   
   
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   August wrote:   
   > Hello Nigel!   
   >    
   > ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:   
   >    
   >  NR> What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so   
   >  NR> long that some fido systems truncate them.   
   >    
   > I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within.  ;)     
   > It's pretty cool.  It's much better than people never changing     
   > the subject on fidonet at all. ;)   
      
   And then it is not threaded.   
      
   > Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars.  If the     
   > author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars     
   > of the message for the subj.   
      
   Annoying.   
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