>I just replied to a message on the list ([EE:] Release of magic smoke).
>Just before sending, I noticed that the topic in the subject line of the
>message I was sending had changed to 'RE: ] Release of magic smoke' - it
>lost the EE: tag. Has anyone came across this before? Any solution?
>(apart from changing my e-mail program)
>
>In view of recent controversies, I'd like to think that when replying to
>a properly tagged message, my reply would be automatically tagged
>properly............

This is a well known problem with Outlook and Outlook Express. Apparently M$
in their wisdom see fit to strip the subject line up to and including the
colon before applying the "Re:" when replying to messages. This is
supposedly to stop the very long strings of "Re: Re:" in subject lines.

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