No, gentlemen. Take the colon away is like kidnap the Queen. The colon stays because the MIT server needs them. The colon should be inside the brackets [OT:], [EE:], [PIC:], etc. Regards, Dennis. P.s.: I hope the British Intelligent? Service personnel in Argentina have sense of humor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Fosdick" To: Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Topic Tags > Mike Hord wrote: > > Why include a colon at all? > > > > It appears to me that whatever occurs before a colon is > > trimmed by Outlook. So why not just leave out the colon? > > > > Problem solved! No more tagless messages, or messages > > with :] on the front end. All in favor? > > Sounds good to me. I've already set my filters to ignore the colon anyway. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.