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   August Abolins to Nigel Reed   
   Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is mak   
   11 Jan 21 12:24:11   
   
   MSGID: 2:460/58 000000e0   
   REPLY: 392.fido_chat@1:124/5016 24612fa8   
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   REPLYTO 2:460/58 1223717052   
   RealName: August Abolins 2:221/1.58   
    NR> August wrote:   
    NR> > Hello Nigel!   
    NR> >    
    NR> > ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:   
    NR> >    
    NR> >  NR> What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so   
    NR> >  NR> long that some fido systems truncate them.   
    NR> >    
    NR> > I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within.  ;)     
    NR> > It's pretty cool.  It's much better than people never changing     
    NR> > the subject on fidonet at all. ;)   
    NR>    
    NR> And then it is not threaded.   
    NR>    
    NR> > Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars.  If the     
    NR> > author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars     
    NR> > of the message for the subj.   
    NR>    
    NR> Annoying.   
      
   Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long subj lines are well   
   supported in other readers. Both details work great with openxp and   
   thunderbird. Cheers! :)   
      
      
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