I believe the reason for the change is OE (outlook Express) decides that it should trim [OT]: as if it were RE: putting the :] keeps the tag there. IE in outlook RE:[OT]: Foo becomes RE: Foo RE:[OT:] Foo becomes RE:[OT:] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell McMahon" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] High Voltage H-bridge design (or rather "mucked tags".. .) > > 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 > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body