Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Jonathan Johnson wrote :
>
>> Actually I believe we came to an amendment awhile ago and
>> relocated the colon to INSIDE the brackets due to crappy
>> ol' outlook(yes I am a user myself) stripping the tags.
>
> Actualy, it's my firm believing that those problems
> ("crappy ol' outlook stripping the tags") *begun* when
> the colon was moved *inside* the brackets. I never saw that
> problem before, and I always put the colon *outside*
> of the brackets in my own posts.

Actually (;-) it all started many moons ago after MS put out some kind
of update that resulted in Outlook Express messing the tags up.

> It's my understanding that Outlook sometimes mixes up
> the "[xxx:]" tags with the normal "Re:" or "Fw:" tags and strips
> them (and leaves a single "]") to avoid multiple tags in the subject.
> When using the "[xxx]:" tags, this never happens (for me, at least).
> I have *only* seen the stripping of tags when the colon has been
> inside the brackets.

Outlook Express is the primary culprit and it happens to me all the
time, usually when replying to the original post.

> I'v still not seen any reasonable reason to move the colon
> inside the brackets and I believe my explanation above
> is pretty plausable...

I think that's because you are using Outlook and not OE.  ;-)

> I'm reading piclist using Outlook 2000 SR1, b.t.w.

Right.  ;-)

>> tag corrected ;-)
>
> I'm not sure it was... :-) :-)

I bet it was.  ;-)

michael brown

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