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Subject:Re: On the Appropriateness of the Archive Word
From:DaveC
Date:Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:04:18 -0700

>On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, DaveC wrote:
>
>>  And *please* use the *identical* subject line (that's what Copy and
>>  Paste are for). You'd have to be a non-digest subscriber (who uses
>>  this to follow a thread) to appreciate how helpful this can be.
>
>I'd like to, but the Vanagon mailing list does really unfortunate things
>to subject lines.  If the line is longer than 70 characters or so, it
>inserts lots of spaces to make things pretty.  My ISP considers subject
>lines with lots of spaces a hallmark of SPAM, and won't let me reply to
>those messages until I trim them out.

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So let's summarize the request(s):

1. Use short, descriptive subject lines when creating a post.
2. Please quote something less than the complete message when replying.
3. Use the *identical* subject line (Copy and Paste, please).

That should do it.

Dave
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Dave Carpenter

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