P3D Re: subject lines

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 
>From: Bob Wier writes:
>
>|
>|I now put a space like below and everything works fine.
>| Re: Intentional perspective shift
>|
>|Hope this sheds some light.
>|
>|Gabriel
>
>Aha - yes - that's it. I was thinking that everyone would just
>hit "reply" in appropriate cases, and as far as I know all mail programs
>do insert the space. I *might* be able to fix it, but I'm trying to
>be careful not to delete any occurrences of "re" or "p3d" anyplace
>but at the beinning of the subject line, which pretty much depends
>on the space being there (at least currently).
>

****  For those who receive P3D in digest form, you CAN'T hit return!!! (or
shouldn't at least)

In the process of hand-pasting actual subject lines, I often end up with or
without an extra space between *Re:* and the subject. Now that this obscure
little bug is known, I know to avoid that seemingly innocent error. I would
describe that bug as an accident waiting to happen... (and Murphy is always
nearby...)

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
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