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Mystery resolved: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245199 In my humble opinion we should add an extra character in tags with 4 chrs. eg SX,OT, EE to stop the annoying and chaotic stream of untagged mails.
Oh great... Well, we can change the name of the topics (with difficulty), but we can't remove the : (lsoft listserv requires it; MIT says they are going to update to something better "real soon now") Can somebody with this version of OE do a quick test and see if it removes the tag when the colon is *inside* the brackets? e.g. [OT:] rather than [OT]: It turns out that lsoft deals with that At first glance, that probably will not help, but you never know what evil lurks in the minds of men... it might just honor the brackets. Any suggestions for the extra character? M for Microshit? S for Stupid? Or go for broke: [EEmicrosoftsucks]: [OTmicrosoftsucks]: Lsoft says it can NOT be a space, comma, equals, plus, or minus. ( ,=+-) Other (bad) ideas: remind people to add a comma or space before the tag. e.g. ,[OT]: And just because I love to hear 500 responses and start big arguments, as long as we have to change the tags anyway, how about canning the brackets? e.g. ONPIC: ONSXS: ONAVR: TRONS: OTHER: SELLING: BUYING: Rather than replying, please click here to vote: mailto:james@piclist.com?subject=DROP_BRACKETS mailto:james@piclist.com?subject=KEEP_BRACKETS --- James Newton: PICList.com webmaster, former Admin #3 mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu