M. Adam Davis wrote:
> The reason the : is on the inside is that Microsoft decided to look out
> for the interests of people who rabidly forward jokes and 'stuff'.  It
> deletes the "[EE]:" tag if the colon is placed outside the bracket when
> replaying to or forwarding a message, when the : is on the inside it
> doesn't delete it.
>
> So we've adopted the strange notation of "[EE:]" to cater to those on
> this list who use Outlook Express and are afflicted by this particular
> (non configurable) "feature".
>
> The reason why it's not used by everyone is that the change was made a
> short while ago, and it takes awhile to teach an old piclister new tricks.

I don't remember seeing a message about the change, this is the first
I've heard of it. Perhaps the message footers should be changed to
reflect the new tag format? Might help to spread the word a bit faster.

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