> Perhaps these people are confused by the instructions at
>     http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/index.htm#quickfaq
> which clearly specify to put the ':' inside the ']'

The faq allows only ":]".

Which is different from how it always used to be until quite recently.
A look through past months records will show essentially all posts using
"]:" until quite recently.
A somewhat dim and foggy part of my memory asserts that at one stage either
was OK or that it changed from external to internal or .... .

Now both are commonly in use but ":]" seems to predominate.

Note that all of James Newton's posts used to use the former (up until 5
August) and now all use the latter (6 August on). This is, presumably, a
good indicator of proper usage then and now.

An alternative to worrying about how to handle incorrect incoming tags is to
accept ALL piclist traffic (as I do) and then work out tagging within your
own system (or not :-) ).

As a consequence of the above, I have 9673 unread PICList messages in my
PICList mailbox after returning from 2 months away :-)



        Russell McMahon

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