Subj : The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "
To   : Nigel Reed
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 10:41 pm

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. ;)

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.

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