Subj : Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "
To   : Nigel Reed
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jan 11 2021 12:24 pm

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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