I think it's using AOL, that horrible abomination... >.<

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:54 -0400 9/19/11, [email protected] wrote:
>>Virtually every single Yahoo group in existence has an identifier in the 
>>subject line before the message (and other entities follow that standard as 
>>well such as google groups)
>
> That's one reason I detest Yahoo groups. Another is that Yahoo does not 
> follow the rules when it re-formats messages into quoted printable coding.
>
> At 11:54 -0400 9/19/11, [email protected] continued:
>>What's wrong with an of these:
>>
>>1.  [Vintage Macs]
>>2.  [Fix Macs]
>>
>>???
>
> 1) They use up useless space in the subject line. Some mail readers truncate 
> displays on the right when you do.
>
> 2) There is a better way.
>
> 3) Adding Re: or an equivalent in another language sometimes comes before the 
> [xx] and sometimes after and that messes up sorting operations.
>
> At 11:54 -0400 9/19/11, [email protected] continued:
>>[I-S] Digest Number 14375
>>[addoctor2001] Digest Number 36820
>>[MYRLANDsMETHODs] Digest Number 2146
>>[NathanHalePatriotsOfAmerica] Digest Number 3213
>
> If you're into sorting mail messages you should not be using digest mode.
>
> Your message as posted contained this header...
>   List-ID: <vintage-macs.googlegroups.com>
> It's different and doesn't change for essentially all lists these days.  
> Filter on it!
>
> Your message also contained this...
>   Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> You'll find a reference to that in this posting from me.  You can also use it 
> to collect messages relating to a thread. That is unless someone  hijacks a 
> thread by replying to a message and completely changing the subject.
>
> And, by the way, your message was delivered in HTML format.  There were 39 
> <DIV> tags which is more than the number of paragraphs in your message. Why 
> do you do that???  It's far more offensive than adding those [xxx] names..
>
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