Subj : Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "
To   : August Abolins
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Mon Jan 11 2021 01:02 am

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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