P3D Re: P3D/S3D Message formatting

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob W, friendly moderator, wrote:
 
> The problem we are likely to see is that if everyone just hits
> "reply" to answer a message, we will end up with something like
> RE: P3D RE:P3D RE:P3D  etc etc on the subject line. I may write
> another simple filter to strip out multiple REs, but in the meantime,
> everyone should be careful to edit their subject lines

But Bob, what is your recommendation on how to edit the line?  Re: is
supposed to indicate a reply, so the first Re: ought to stay.  If
we edit out the P3D that listserv inserted, we'll get:
  P3D A Subject
  P3D Re: A Subject

and when sorting lists by subject in a mail reader, these won't
appear next to each other as they should.

Because subscription is not automatic, perhaps e-mail addresses with
embedded spaces should not be allowed....at least for the time being,
until a better solution is found.

(I saw one embedded space address the other day, but it was a
CompuServe address; On CIS aren't the proper name addresses just
and alias, so the old-style address could still be used? Or did
they change that?  I think AOl also allows embedded spaces.)

> I *could* put the identifier at the END of the subject message, but
> right offhand I can't see any reason to do that, and it might cause
> problems for people with narrow subject fields on their mail readers.

Agree that is not ideal either.

Paul Talbot


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